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178 pictograms per style across 77 geometric variants
Ceremony is a labels and icons typeface family designed by Studio Joost Grootens, emerging directly from the studio's information design practice. The icon library was developed over six years to meet the specific requirements of map and index design, growing through continuous addition and refinement. The family comprises 77 styles presenting positive and negative geometric shapes, with each style containing 178 pictograms alongside a complete extended Latin character set.
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- The icon library was developed to meet the specific requirements of Grootens's map and index design work—a practice that includes atlases published in 2005, 2010, and 2015—and was iteratively refined over six years before becoming a released typeface.
- Pictograms are accessible via the OpenType Contextual Alternates [calt] feature: typing a short reference string (e.g. 'p 1.1') substitutes the corresponding pictogram glyph.
- The 77 styles are divided into Black and Outline variants, further differentiated by shape groupings labeled A through O and K01–K16.
- Each style pairs its pictogram set with a full Latin character set, enabling mixed label-and-text use within a single font file.
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