Pigiarniq Bold Font

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Author's note

Pigiarniq Bold, a free sans serif from the Government of Nunavut, the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, and Tiro Typeworks, has a warm, civic plainness that feels direct rather than neutral. Its heavy strokes, rounded dots, and friendly single-storey forms give the letters a steady, approachable rhythm, while the broad curves keep it from feeling mechanical.

That makes it a natural free font for public information graphics, museum panels, educational materials, community posters, and wayfinding headlines where a clear, grounded voice matters. It also suits title cards, short cover lines, and branded captions, because the bold lowercase shapes feel familiar and human even when set large.

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BasicForeignSans serifUnicodeCan Syllabics

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
Copyright(C), 2001, Government of Nunavut, Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, Tiro Typeworks. All rights reserved.
Font family
Pigiarniq
Font subfamily
Bold
Unique subfamily identification
TiroTypeworks: GNFont: 2001
Full font name
Pigiarniq Bold
Name table version
Version 1.2; 2001
Postscript font name
Pigiarniq-Bold
Trademark notice
Pigiarniq is a trademark of the Government of Nunavut
Designer
Wm. Ross Mills
Description
Pigiarniq Inukitut syllabics is a font containing the maximum repertoire of characters included in Canadian Syllabics, as well as roman characters required to support English, French, and all other languages supported by the Codepage 1252. Additional characters are included to support further orthographies including Greenlandic. Inuktitut Syllabic portions of Fonts distributed under the name 'Pigiarniq' are Copyrighted material of the Government of Nunavut. Latin, or non-Inuktitut syllabic portions of the Fonts are Copyrighted material of Tiro Typeworks.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2001-10-03
Revision1
Glyph count427
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSans serif
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleItalic
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureBold
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 5 font weights listed below:
Pigiarniq Bold.ttf
Pigiarniq Heavy.ttf
Pigiarniq Italic.ttf
Pigiarniq Light.ttf
Pigiarniq Regular.ttf
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