“Thy can talk about fonts all day!”

Thy doesn’t just talk about type — she spends a lot of time drawing fonts too. As a native Vietnamese speaker, she often collaborates with type designers and foundries to develop typefaces with Vietnamese language support, through her own type practice, Mai Type. Recognising that type design is still largely shaped by Western perspectives, her work aims to bridge the gap between markets and bring greater cultural nuance to the field.

In her spare time, she enjoys discussing type-related matters with the collectives Lưu Chữ and Counter Forms

My fonts

Eyja

Eyja is a revival project from my Type@Cooper program in 2021. It is based on a serif typeface found in an 1852 edition of "Visit to Iceland and The Scandinavian North" by Ida Pfeiffer.
Released with
Counter Forms
Available in Regular
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MT Mighty Mono

Mighty Mono is a low-contrast, geometric monospaced typeface. It is my interpretation with the letterforms that I have been familiar with since primary school in Vietnam, such as the ‘i’ with the little tail, or the single-storey ‘a’ and ‘g’.
Released with
Modern Type
Available in Light, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold, and Bold
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Mai Display

Mai Display (previously Untitled Display) is a reverse-contrast display sans inspired by the old hand-painted signages in Vietnam, which are well-known typography visual materials.
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