q̓apkiⱡ magazine, published by the Traditional Knowledge and Language Enrichment Society, is celebrating the arts, language, and culture of the Ktunaxa people of Southern British Columbia, Canada.

Art director / designer Marian Lowe sought to create a harmonious typographic palette that accommodated all of the Ktunaxa language orthography’s unique typographic and text rendering requirements, however, there are not many fonts available that support the Indigenous languages of Canada and have enough range in styles for editorial work. Marian chose Lava and November from Typotheque that already fully covered Ktunaxa and its local typographic requirements.

The magazine was a winner in the Editorial Package category at the 2024 edition of Canada’s National Magazine Awards.