Athelas is a
serif typeface designed by Veronika Burian and Jose Scaglione and intended for use in body text. Released by their company TypeTogether in 2008, Burian and Scaglione described Athelas as inspired by British
fine book printing
Fine press printing and publishing comprises historical and contemporary printers and publishers publishing books and other printed matter of exceptional intrinsic quality and artistic taste, including both commercial and private presses.
Histor ...
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Athelas is included as a system font in Apple's
macOS
macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and lapt ...
operating system and as a default font in its
Apple Books
Apple Books (formerly known as iBooks between January 2010 and September 2018) is an e-book reading and store application by Apple Inc. for its iOS and macOS operating systems and devices. It was announced, under the name iBooks, in conjuncti ...
e-books application. It won joint first prize for best Latin-alphabet body text face at the Granshan International Type Design Competition in 2008. It is named after a
healing herb in Tolkien's ''
The Lord of the Rings
''The Lord of the Rings'' is an epic high-fantasy novel by English author and scholar J. R. R. Tolkien. Set in Middle-earth, intended to be Earth at some time in the distant past, the story began as a sequel to Tolkien's 1937 children's b ...
''. Cyrillic characters were later added to the font family, designed by Tom Grace, and monotonic Greek characters designed by Irene Vlachou.
In 2017 TypeTogether released an Arabic extension to Athelas.
The new script extension was designed by Sahar Afshar, a type designer and researcher from Iran.
References
External links
Identifont sampleTypeTogether commercial release
Serif typefaces
Typefaces with text figures
Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2008
Things named after Tolkien works
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