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High-quality Romulus-Greek sample needed
Posted by hrant in
22 Apr 2004 — 10:53am
22 Apr 2004 — 10:53am
Where can I find a high-quality rendering of JvK's Romulus-Greek?
All I seem to have handy is the sample from Letters of Credit.
hhp
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22 Apr 2004 — 6:50pm
Romulus Greek is also shown in Fig.27, page 18, of Greek letters from tablets to pixels, but the reproduction is pretty poor. The text sample is too poor to be of much use, but the figure includes a large showing of the uppercase, apparently from van Krimpen's drawings for R
22 Apr 2004 — 7:07pm
Thanks! Considering the better paper stock, the one in "Greek Letters" would have better than LoC's, but it's really garbled, unfortunately. I was tempted to trace an outline of my LoC scan, but decided to just enlarge it then lean on Levels. The edges became rough of course but the color is good.
> Hideous typeface.
So much so that it's the first illustration I'm using in an essay I'm finishing about the dangers of Latinization*. The caption is: "Alleged Greek lowercase xi from Jan vna Krimpen's Romulus." :->
* To be published first in German.
hhp
22 Apr 2004 — 10:35pm
...the dangers of Latinization.
You need to see this:
http://www.stav.org.il/karmeli/
And then this (which I think you've seen in book form with SM's ignorant introduction):
http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html
23 Apr 2004 — 12:22am
I'd never heard of Karmeli - I'll look into it. But wouldn't you call that more of a Romanization, rather than Latinization? Hard to say, since there are a number of new symbols added - although that's in fact been the case with some Romanization schemes (like Azeri). I guess sometimes the line is blurred.
BTW, you know this one?
Talk about wreaking havoc with stroke anatomy while you're at it!
Morison's intro in Schonfield is classic. I couldn't help including one of the worse passages ("ignorant" is generous) in my intro.
hhp
23 Apr 2004 — 12:06pm
I have seent that 'Arabic' before, but can't remember where.
Nadine Chahine showed me some photos of Latinised Arabic signage from Dubai, some of it very funny, and more interesting than the extreme example you show in that people are actually using it.
23 Apr 2004 — 12:14pm
That sample was from Haralambous's paper about "typographically-aware" reform of Arabic.
> Latinised Arabic signage from Dubai
I'd like to see those - I'll try to contact her.
But I know you've seen this:
From a billboard in Beirut advertising a music CD. Finally, a use for Serpentine... :-/
hhp
24 Apr 2004 — 7:43am
Here are the images that Nadine sent of signs around Dubai. The Fairmont Hotel sign is almost impressive in its bizarreness.
24 Apr 2004 — 7:48am
Wow, Snell does Dubai...
(Thanks!)
hhp
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is 4/24 Armenian Genocide remembrance day?
25 Apr 2004 — 10:29am
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