Uqammaq Font

Uqammaq family consisting of 4 fonts
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Author's note

Uqammaq, from Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and Tiro Typeworks, is a free humanist serif font with a calm, literary tone. Its letters pair soft curves with crisp, slightly calligraphic joins, and the tall descender on the q gives the rhythm a distinctive vertical pull that keeps the texture feeling lively rather than neutral.

This free font fits editorial branding, museum graphics, cultural publications, book covers, and title pages where you want warmth without ornament. It also works well for short headlines and chapter openers, since the gently modulated shapes and compact details give even a brief line a thoughtful, authored feel.

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BasicForeignSans serifUnicodeCan Syllabics

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Copyright notice
The digitally encoded machine readable software for producing the Fonts licensed to you is copyrighted (C), 2001, Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated. All rights reserved. This software the property of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and Tiro Typeworks, and may not be reproduced, used, displayed or modified without the express written approval of the parties with whom the copyright is held: Canadian Syllabics Inuktitut subset is the property of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated; all other portions of these Fonts is the property of Tiro Typeworks, with distribution rights granted to Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated and its affiliated departments.
Font family
Uqammaq
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
TiroTypeworks: NTI: 2000
Full font name
Uqammaq
Name table version
Version 1.0; 2002; initial release
Postscript font name
Uqammaq
Trademark notice
Uqammaq is a trademark of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated
Designer
Tiro Typeworks, Wm Ross Mills
Description
Uqammaq Inuktitut 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 'Uqammaq' are Copyrighted material of Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated. Latin, or non-Inuktitut syllabic portions of the Fonts are Copyrighted material of Tiro Typeworks.

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Revision1
Glyph count414
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsEmbedding for permanent installation
Family classSans serif
WeightSemi-light
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced
Complete pack contains 4 font weights listed below:
Uqammaq Regular.ttf
Uqammaq Light.ttf
Uqammaq Bold.ttf
Uqammaq Heavy.ttf
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