Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Tondo

Rounded terminals across three scripts and 920+ languages

Tondo is a sans-serif typeface with rounded terminals designed by Veronika Burian at Dalton Maag, developed between 2007 and 2021. It covers Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts, supporting over 920 languages. The family spans Light, Regular, Signage, and Bold weights and includes OpenType features such as fractions, tabular and proportional numerals, superscript, subscript, and all-caps. Its rounded character makes it applicable across wayfinding, branding, and advertising contexts.

Set in Tondo

Insights

The family includes a named Signage weight alongside wayfinding listed as an intended application area, pointing to explicit consideration of environmental use.
Cyrillic and Greek extensions alongside Latin give Tondo genuinely broad multilingual reach rather than token script additions.