"Good enough reason to set about creating a nation-defining bespoke font family." The curved d features nor just in Welsh but also in other Celtic languages like Scots and Irish Gaelicīeyond the digraphs, the most distinctive character is the d, which has an ascender that curves forwards. "The Welsh alphabet has a total of 28 letters and is blessed with eight digraphs," said Smörgåsbord's creative director and co-founder Dylan Griffith.
These feature a combination of two letters such as ph or ll to represent a single sound.ĭue to the lack of dedicated digital characters, these are generally spelled using two individual letters, but they actually represent a single letter – much like a German umlaut – and take up a single box in a crossword. Most notably, the it gives an expression to the digraphs that distinguish the Welsh alphabet from the English one. The eight digraphs of the Welsh language are stylised both in the serif (above) and the sans font (below) In collaboration with the Colophon Type Foundry, they set about adopting some of the language's unique stylistic traits into a modern font. To imbue the typography with a unique sense of identity and place, the studio went back to some of the oldest surviving Welsh manuscripts, including The Black Book of Carmarthen and The Red Book of Hergest, which date back to the 13th and 14th century respectively.
Unlike Cymru Wales Serif (pictured in red), the sans font (pictured in green) features no serifs
It features the no-frills Cymru Wales Sans which Smörgåsbord originally designed in 2017, alongside a serif font for longer reads and a designated font for the local transport system. The project was commissioned by the Welsh government as part of a wider rebrand of the country's visual identity.
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