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Cyrillic questionary booth

... other – languages are quite mixed up) are replaced with latin ones (English mainly), and how the young generation is consciously trying ... described in the article you linked to, most of which were archaic by the time the Adolf Darre specimen was produced. Regarding the ...

Forum topic - kateliev - 17 Jan 2008 - 10:41am - 86 comments - 0 attachments

Coming Soon: A Ruble Symbol

... symbol that resembled the cyrillic Р (ER) instead of the latin R. I found it strange that so many of the proposed designs did ... banks and financial institutions do not use anything as archaic as symbols, they use the ISO currency codes, USD, GBP and RUR. By ...

Forum topic - speter - 22 May 2007 - 6:43am - 57 comments - 0 attachments

CARTER, MATTHEW

... for Sports Illustrated . He also includes the Manutius Latin supplement to Miller that he did for UCLA. There was Benton Bold ... Flammande is two Type 1 fonts: the main font and the archaic scribal ligatures. Add Big Bruce to the list. Add Big Bruce to ...

Forum topic - beejay - 25 Apr 2003 - 10:28pm - 16 comments - 0 attachments

Bucentoro Greek

... Jenson's M with the "extra" serifs. Will you be doing archaic cyrillic characters also? Thanks for the comments, Thanks for the comments, Nick. This is a multi-year project covering latin, greek, and cyrillic and I am learning a lot about type design in the ...

Forum topic - esl - 14 Apr 2007 - 10:37am - 18 comments - 3 attachments

Languages at a glance

... that are seemingly complete include*: - Basque - Latin - Danish - Dutch - English - Finnish - French - German - ... svamp, Svamp, SVAMP Q qvinde, Qvinde, QVINDE (archaic form of 'Kvinde') n/a n/a R røver, Røver, RØVER ...

Forum topic - ebensorkin - 18 Oct 2007 - 8:31am - 117 comments - 2 attachments

Greek Character Design Standards

... is whether the Greek characters are subsidiary to the Latin in your design. I assume they are, given this forum. The issue to ... the traditional ones. Scholars also need several archaic characters (qoppa, sampi, and others), as well a set of ... shares several forms with Cyrillic alphabet, which, like Latin, decscended from the Greek. Beyond those in common with Latin, these ...

Forum topic - pablohoney77 - 28 Mar 2005 - 11:08am - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Chinese Fonts & Adobe Software

... and marries well stylistically and historically with the latin alphabet I have chosen. The job is setting film title credits, the key ... trick was to find a balance, keeping a general primitive, archaic feel. I designed a custom-lettered wordmark first, the selection of the ...

Forum topic - breck - 11 Apr 2006 - 12:43pm - 13 comments - 0 attachments

why is serif still used today?

... also like to recommend you acquaint yourself with another archaic throwback to an earlier era, the Shift key. It's just to the left of ... has thick horizontals and thin verticals, the opposite of latin script. It also has serifs, though they are generally vertical. I agree ...

Forum topic - missgiggles - 1 Dec 2006 - 6:36am - 117 comments - 0 attachments

The bouma of space craft

... doesn't exist. Bill, stop worrying about archaic, non-linguistic control strings, and optimizing fonts for one point ... and "Texture" are both derived from the Latin "tactare" -- to touch. So the idea is well established that there ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 1:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

Legato & points

... are a lot less important in Chinese for example than in Latin. > In the same way offset will never be able > to replace ... notan, directly, without any limiting influences from archaic tools. The moving front is anti-notan. The need to demote ...

Forum topic - geraintf - 4 Dec 2006 - 7:59am - 69 comments - 0 attachments