Industry: Design

Taklobo

A typeface modeled on an endangered Philippine giant clam

Taklobo is a heavy display serif typeface designed by Jad Maza and released in 2022. Its proportions and curves are drawn from the giant clam (taklobo), a vulnerable bivalve native to Philippine waters. The design adopts a unicase construction by suppressing ascenders and aligning all letterforms to cap height, producing a dense, uniform block. It supports Latin European languages and is exported in TTF and WOFF formats.

Set in Taklobo

Insights

The unicase structure was achieved by rejecting ascenders and raising lowercase letterforms to cap-line height, creating a consistently dense text mass.
Conservation awareness of the giant clam's vulnerable status directly shaped the conceptual framing of the project.
Intended uses cited by the designer include splashy headlines and eclectic visual identities.