Asekkil Type Lab

By Dina Benbrahim · Procedural Tifinagh, IRCAM set U+2D30–U+2D7F

Structure

Stroke weight

Width (condensed ↔ wide)

Corner radius

Slant

Spacing

Terminals

Optical overshoot on round letters

Modular grid

Snap construction points to grid

Modules per cap height

Coordinates snap to 1/N of the cap box. Attached points (like the leg of ⴽ) are re-solved on the snapped stroke so joints never break.

Pixel grid

Pixels per cap height

Stroke width

Fill threshold

The letter is built as a vector skeleton on the pixel lattice, then sampled onto the grid. A pixel turns on when the shape covers at least the threshold of it. Lower thresholds thicken diagonals and curves.

Ornament & cuts

Stencil gap

Inline groove

Ornaments sit only on free terminals; stencil gaps open only where a stroke lands on another. Both are found automatically from the skeleton.

Colors

Letters Background

Export

Family name

The web font kit holds a .woff for Cargo or any website, the .ttf, a ready CSS snippet and a specimen.

Construction Metrics

Code point
Latin
Advance
Contours
Points
Terminals

Skeleton recipe

skeleton free terminal joint

Glyph set

Select a letter to inspect it. Arrow keys step through the set.

Text proof

Small sizes test legibility; large sizes test texture.

Skeleton first

Each letter is a list of primitives in a normalized cap box: polylines, rings, arcs and interior dots. Weight, width and slant act on that box, so ⵔ stays a true circle at width 1.0 and becomes an ellipse when condensed, while ⴰ and ⵓ keep their small rings and ⵙ keeps its centred dot.

Joints and terminals

Every stroke end is tested against the other strokes. Ends that land on a stroke are joints and stay quiet; the rest are terminals that receive the sharp, rounded or flared treatment and the display ornaments. Sharp ends are cut flat on the baseline and cap height, like signage lettering.

Marks

ⵯ is a spacing modifier drawn as a small raised cup. ⵰ is a spacing separator that dips below the baseline. ⵿ has zero advance and sits under the preceding consonant; the exported font maps it but does not build bi-consonant ligatures.