Uni to launch local font set

 By YEVIE KWAISOMBI

A LOCALLY invented font package based on the different cultures of PNG will be launched on Sept 11 at the University of PNG’s Ulli Beier Arts Theatre.

Customs fonts (typefaces) of PNG are unique as the package is the first of its kind to promote creativity in arts industry as PNG goes through a time of technological intervention and also identifying its culture through this form of publication using new media that will go out to the world.

Kumul Fonts® is the name given to the packaged typefaces that were manually illustrated and digitised that now meet the standard requirements to convert them to True Font Style.

The project aims to encourage Papua New Guineans to use our own typefaces instead of western types, promote PNG culture digitally to the world and motivate artists to innovate ideas and contribute to the world during this digital era. 

It is also to generate funds to support innovation in creative industry primarily in visual arts and create legacies that will live which are originally Papua New Guinean.

The Kumul Fonts®through the use of cultural themes will also help to sustain PNG’s dying culture.

Founder of the project and Arts and Design lecturer at UPNG Philemon Yalamu said: “The Art work was created by using the different cultural backgrounds of my students and their places of origin.

‘’I am a person who likes to use things out of my own invention rather than using those that are invented by others.”