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Now read this: the Russian D.
Posted by fredo in
24 May 2005 — 4:09am
24 May 2005 — 4:09am
Hi,
I picked up a copy (well, actually three copies) of Now read this at Typotechnica this year, and on page 22 You can read Maxim Zhukovs comments to Gary Munch regarding his design of the uppercase cyrillic D.
Zhukov suggests that the diagonal should be slightly convex instead of concave.
Now, every other cyrillic design in this book show concave D:s.
I'm curious if it's only in the context of Munchs specific design it made sense or what?
The reason I'm asking is because I feel to understand so much more of the cyrillic alphabet, and I'd appreciate anyone who can point me towards cyrillic enlightenment in general.
Yours,
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24 May 2005 — 5:50am
i believe that this was a design-specific suggestion and not applicable to every cyrillic design. at least that's how i remember reading it.
24 May 2005 — 8:49am
Dear Fredrik,
That was certainly a design-specific suggestion. The slightly arched ascending diagonal in the De and de is a feature in some 18th-century Russian typefaces (e.g., AZ Paragon Nord, shown in the book you are referring to). The strongly arched diagonal in the De, de, El and el (sometimes in the A) is typical for the Art-Nouveau designs (e.g., ITC Benguiat, ITC Benguiat Gothic)... Remember the nameplate of Pravda?
http://www.1tv.ru/img/20031023221500.GIF
http://slava-cccp.narod.ru/USSR0090.JPG
25 May 2005 — 12:34am
Thank You, thank You!
I do remember Pravda, and I sometimes feel I made a mistake to drop my studies in Russian in favour of my French in high school.
Quel dommage!
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