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 •
Normal
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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The name?
Like me, Llawen is Welsh! Llawen means ‘joyful’ or ‘merry’.
The ‘ll’ sound is pronounced with a voiceless lateral fricative, which is a sound not commonly found in many other languages.
Where can I get this?
It's not available yet! Llawen is not quite finished. Most of the glyphs are drawn but there are some wonky curves in a few places. But as I refine those glyphs in FontLab, and commit those changes to GitHub, this page will immediately be updated with the changes. So keep checking often!
Mind you, I've been working on this since 2019 so it may never be finished. If you work for a font foundry and fancy taking this on then let's talk! Email: hello at andrewgraham dot dev.
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.