Pangea Reaches Đà Lạt

The folks at Fontwerk had written about the project City of Arts in Đà Lạt to showcase Pangea Text, designed by Christoph Koeberlin. I had the opportunity to work with Christoph and the team at Fontwerk to advise them on Vietnamese diacritics for Pangea. The article mentioned me:

A crucial factor was also the excellent support for the Vietnamese language. Pangea offers full diacritical features that work in both tight line spacing and complex layouts. These features are thanks to the input from Donny Truong, one of the leading experts in Vietnamese type design, with whom Fontwerk works. Truong stands for a philosophy in which linguistic aesthetics and technical precision work together equally. His characteristic script and idiosyncratic touch is clearly noticeable in Pangea’s Vietnamese character set.

Read the article to learn about the City of Artists.