CMDZ Open The File: Kevin King | Typographic Sovereignty

In this episode we sit down with Kevin King a typeface designer typographer calligrapher and type researcher based in Canada. After working at Toronto’s Coach House Press and Canada Type he completed his Master’s degree in Typeface Design with distinction at the University of Reading. His work focuses on font support and research for minority languages collaborating directly with Indigenous communities across North America. This isn't just a story about fonts. It's a story about infrastructure, about power, and about who gets to decide which languages can exist on a screen.We go into what nobody sees: the technical proposals to the Unicode Consortium, the negotiations with companies, and the decisions that can determine whether a language survives or disappears in digital space. Join us as we open the file and explore how typography can become a tool for cultural preservation language access and collective memory. Because what you see today is only one version of many. It is time to… Open The File.