Llawen

A warm and friendly typeface designed for all ages

Normal

Birdhouse in your soul • Hovering sombrero • Synopsis for latecomers • Careful what you pack • Shoehorn with teeth • 
Birdhouse in your soul • Hovering sombrero • Synopsis for latecomers • Careful what you pack • Shoehorn with teeth • 

Formal

A sober conversation • The last rotation of Earth • Kicking up a fuss • Shortly after takeoff • You should’ve gone to school • 
A sober conversation • The last rotation of Earth • Kicking up a fuss • Shortly after takeoff • You should’ve gone to school • 

Cursive

Let’s write a book • The noisy days are over • Closer at hand • Curfew in the square • A new town • 
Let’s write a book • The noisy days are over • Closer at hand • Curfew in the square • A new town • 

About this typeface

Llawen takes some of the ideas from Exuberance Primary, the font I released back in 2005, and runs with them in a big way.

Llawen is redrawn from scratch to accommodate more weights, features and languages.

Llawen is designed to be friendly and warm - ideal for educational publishing. There are a number of alternate letterforms available so that you can choose to make your text more formal, or more casual, like handwriting.

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Can I buy this?

Not yet! At the time of writing, Llawen is not quite finished. While most of the glyphs are drawn, there are some wonky curves in a few places. But as I tweak and refine those glyphs in FontLab, and commit those changes to the repository in Github, this page will immediately be updated with the changes. So keep checking often!

When I'm close to something that I'm happy to release, I'll let you know.

Mind you, I've been working on this since 2019 so it may never be finished. If you're a font foundry and fancy taking this on then let's talk!

Test drive Llawen

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Taskmaster is a British comedy panel game show created by comedian Alex Horne. It is presented by Greg Davies, as the Taskmaster, and Horne, as the Taskmaster’s assistant. In each series of the programme, a group of five celebrities (mainly comedians) attempt to complete a series of challenges, referred to as “tasks”. The Taskmaster then reviews the contestants’ attempts and awards points based on performance, interpretation or other arbitrary, comedic factors. A winner is determined in each episode and for the series overall. The concept for the programme was first created by Horne for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2010; he later secured a deal with Dave to adapt it for television with the first episode premiering in 2015. After the ninth series in 2019, the programme was acquired by Channel 4. The programme has completed 20 series, as well as five Champion of Champions specials and seven New Year Treat specials as of January 2026, and is set to continue for at least one more series in 2026.

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