Revitalizing Deseret Typography

The Deseret Type Foundry was launched after its principal type designer completed the Hesperapis typeface for the Illinois Deseret Consortium and the book The Deseret Alphabet: A Fixed and Unalterable Sound by Ryan Shosted and N. E. Davis. There is an ongoing hunger for beautiful documents produced in the once-obscure phonetic alphabet crafted by Mormon pioneers on the edge of the frontier in the 1850s—and beautiful documents require beautiful typesetting.

The Deseret Type Foundry produces typefaces both based on authentic nineteenth-century exemplars like the Russell Bros. font used in the 1869 Book of Mormon, and inspired by later and contemporary design like the Art Deco movement.