Euphemia originated in a commission by the government of the newly formed Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, in 1999, to give the Inuit-led region an official typeface in their own script. From that starting point, Ross Mills kept going, expanding coverage to all Canadian Syllabics and producing one of the most comprehensive bilingual typefaces available for Latin and Syllabics. Euphemia is a quietly capable typeface for designers to have in their toolkit.

The current version, recently updated and extended by John Hudson and Paul Hanslow, covers the complete Unicode Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics character set alongside Latin support that includes diacritic letters for Indigenous languages historically written in Syllabics. The designs have been carefully balanced in weight, proportion, and spacing to sit comfortably together in bilingual text, while the Latin is equally at home on its own: ideal for designers who simply want a clean, functional sans serif with broad language coverage.

Reworked, respaced, and rereleased in 2023, Euphemia now includes Book and Semibold weights, enabling a broader range of uses. The variable font allows for even finer control over weight for typographical finesse and harmony between texts in different writing systems.

In addition to the full bilingual Euphemia typefaces, Syllabics-only subsets are available under Tiro’s pay-what-you-want model supporting Indigenous language use.