About the project

Unilingua is an experimental visual language and dingbat typeface inspired by ancient proto-writing systems and modern constructed languages. Based on her research of Chinese, Egyptian, Hittite and other writing systems, Tonia designed a set of 120 hieroglyphs conveying essential meanings for everyday life. Unilingua adopts and builds upon the grammar structure of Blissymbols by Charles Bliss and Toki Pona by Sonja Lang.

Special thanks to: goffredo, sandra, erin, ilia, pauline, pi, and the A&AH program @NYU Abu Dhabi.