Type design
Typefaces for African scripts, from the first stroke to a shipping OpenType font.
KadimiType Foundry
Resolving script digitization bottlenecks for indigenous scripts through KorataType Toolkits•Move to turn•Click to light•Drag to release•Scroll to enter•
Breaking the Canonical and Colonial Binary: Scripts as Artifacts, Artifacts as Scripts
A critical reflection on their true roles as active technologies that record, transfer, and preserve knowledge. And a commitment to bringing these systems back into active typographic, digital, and communal circulation.
About Kadimi
Kadimi, a research-led type foundry engineering the KorataType Toolkits to resolve script digitization bottlenecks and connect scripts communities with digital futures institutions and foundry pipelines.
Simon
Charwey
Type Designer, Font Tools Engineer & Script Consultant
- KadimiFounder & Director, Foundry & Type Program
- Font BureauConsultant
- African Design Matters (ADM Archive)Founder & Director
- Bureau of Ghana LanguagesConsultant
- SILICONPractitioners Fellow 2024/25
The Program
What the foundry makesScript research
Documenting how each script is built — its construction rules, stroke order and the reasoning behind every form.
Input & encoding
Keyboards, input methods and the long road to Unicode, so a script can travel as text.
Custom & licensing
Fonts for publishers, schools, institutions and brands working in African scripts.
Kadimi’s scripts are set in motion through kinetic typographic studies.