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| Category | Serif |
|---|---|
| Designer(s) | Veronika Burian Jose Scaglione |
| Foundry | TypeTogether |
| Date released | 2008 |
Athelas is a serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione and intended for use in body text. [1] Released by their company TypeTogether in 2008, Burian and Scaglione described Athelas as inspired by British fine book printing. [2] [3] [4]
Athelas is included as a system font in Apple's macOS operating system and as a default font in its Apple Books e-books application. [5] [6] It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008. [7] It is named after a healing herb in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings . [8] Cyrillic characters were later added to the font family, designed by Tom Grace, and monotonic Greek characters designed by Irene Vlachou. [2] [9]
In 2017 TypeTogether released an Arabic extension to Athelas. [10] The new script extension was designed by Sahar Afshar, a type designer and researcher from Iran.
