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What is BAYBAYING SUKAT?
The BAYBAYING SUKAT typeface is a stylized font family based on the Tagalog Baybayin script and was designed for modern use while respectfully staying faithful to its traditional roots. It makes use of the widely accepted B17+ characters (the original 17 base characters, with vowel notation and vowel suppression), along with stylized variants of some consonant and vowel characters for greater flexibility. The stylizations were carefully designed to be subtle enough to remain readable to traditional readers, while allowing for more precise transliteration for modern writers.
The Baybaying Sukat typeface is so named because all characters have been designed with the same uniform dimensions, giving it a “well-measured” look, or in Tagalog, “sukat”. It is also a homage to Barangay Sucat, where the designer grew up.
The Baybaying Sukat typeface supports the Baybayin block of the Tagalog Official Unicode Consortium Code Chart of the Unicode Standard, Version 15. This means the fonts can be used with a Baybayin keyboard.
What is BAYBAYIN?
BAYBAYIN, a Tagalog word that literally means “to spell”, is a native 13th century writing script of the Tagalog-speaking regions of the Philippines. Originally carved into bamboo bark and palm leaves with pointed tools, the writing system is an “abugida” or syllabary script in which consonants are used as the base character, and vowels are added through notation around it. These consonant-vowel units create syllables, like its parent Brahmic or Indic scripts in Southeast Asia.
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