Adam YeoBété syllabary · in development
Bété Script
A digital typeface for the Bété syllabary created by Frédéric Bruly Bouabré in 1956 — 450 signs drawn for today's screens.
Specimen shown as images: this typeface is not yet publicly released.
About this typeface
Bété Script is a digital typeface for the Bété syllabary, the writing system created in 1956 by the Ivorian artist Frédéric Bruly Bouabré to record oral traditions and share knowledge. Many of its signs come from drawings of people, animals and everyday objects.
The typeface was developed during my research at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (ANRT) in Nancy, then with the Script Encoding Initiative (UC Berkeley), where it supports the proposal to encode Bété in Unicode. A keyboard app built on the same work lets people type the script on their phones.
The font also includes a set of Latin capitals drawn in the same hand, so that Bété and Latin can live side by side.
- Designer
- Adam Yeo
- Year
- 2022 –
- Script
- Bété (Bruly Bouabré syllabary) + Latin capitals
- Characters
- 450 Bété signs
- Status
- In development · Unicode proposal L2/23-279
Sizes
Latin capitals
Glyphs
