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The world's foremost project for non-Latin typeface design. Tweets usually by @hhpapazian, @incfish and @VikBurian competition.granshan.com Worldwide Joined June 2013-
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You know the drill: what's the script? What does it say? What is the wood? Answers on a postcard, as the BBC used to say....
#Latest: Today, the Central Bank of Morocco integrates the Tifinagh script into its official branding, raising hopes for its potential inclusion on future banknotes.
Are you interested in Arabic type design & have a love for the old Egyptian movie posters? We have the type design course just for you! We are offering for the first time, an Arabic type design course focused solely on the Ruqaa style. The course is led by the great @Tosche_E.
We have just opened the call for applications to the first VIEWS Visiting Fellowship competition! If you work on visual aspects of writing, why not come and spend some time with us? viewsproject.wordpress.com/visiting-fello…
Inner Structures – Outer Rhythms ift.tt/unS4eqm
Malayalam users: I am looking at some rarer conjuncts that fonts I have looked render with explicit candrakkala—e.g. ന്പ്യ as in നന്പ്യാര്—and wondering whether they could be rendered with subscript second/medial consonant in a (very) traditional orthography font?
So @crewsproject is asking: "If you have any knowledge or experience about braille publishing, or braille as a script, [we] would love to hear from you." Do reach out, they're great people to work with.
Some fun stuff. “What African type design can be.” Exploring some rare typographic nomenclature in African scripts and writing/reading directions (TTB boustrophedon and TTB Rongorongo) Read more… Dedicated to @alinawheeler and the Wheeler family. instagram.com/p/C5vzQ14uDNC/…
Anyone making Malayalam fonts with ligated final –ya forms? Or is that an archaism too far? Some of the shapes are really lovely.
Hey, my #Indonesian friends! I came across this article from 2015 on restoring traditional #Balinese writing and lontar, and I wondered whether things have progressed in the last 9 years? insideindonesia.org/editions/editi…
@hhpapazian Wait for my version of a book that is covering typographic analysis of African scripts in collaboration with type designers and input methods experts. I will keep you updated. Though I am being advised to include other non-Latin scripts to score the convo on “universality”.
hey Ge'ez/Ethiopia/Eritrea people, i made a thing on wiktionary that generates declension tables for Ge'ez nouns. if you know some Ge'ez, mind taking a look and telling me if it's working right?
Remembering Santi Lawrachawee at GRANSHAN Conference 2014, where he gave an amazing speech surrounded by incredible guests and fellow type designers. Thank you for the inspiration and enriching discussion. © Michael Bundscherer
One of my talented student She made a Perso-Arabic typography from Japanese script. خوشبختی (fortune)
More on the use of this charachter in Sino-Islamic calligraphy. Here the Basmallah [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم] is depicted in a way that is inspired by the characters for ‘long life’ [長壽]
More on the use of this charachter in Sino-Islamic calligraphy. Here the Basmallah [بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم] is depicted in a way that is inspired by the characters for ‘long life’ [長壽] https://t.co/JrPXHFGM7O
A boustrophedon Mooré script in Burkina Faso: youtu.be/2fWBEp3BJhg?si…
Last night was epic. Learning the mbire script by Rutendo Goneso
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Amazing first day in London for the Islamic sales week, starting with the beautiful exhibition in Sotheby’s!!
The oval object is seemingly a Tugh (توق - طوق) which was and is still used during the Muharram ceremonies in different Iranian cities. The word پاتوق (lit. foot of Tugh or around Tugh, namely urban gathering place of a special subculture in Iran) is made by this word. (1 of 2)
Amazing first day in London for the Islamic sales week, starting with the beautiful exhibition in Sotheby’s!!
What is a mermaid doing in the middle of this 19th-century Javanese poem MS? And what does this remarkable item--not an illustration, but something more profound--have to teach us about writing that we in the West have lost or forgotten? All is revealed at wordpress.com/post/glli-us.o…
@grillitype And who's going to get them to kick the Latin-mongery?
Arabic lettering workshop /// Our type designer Azza Alameddine will lead her acclaimed ‘Latin-Arabic Logo Matchmaking‘ workshop online via Zoom in three Saturday sessions starting this Saturday. 🧵 1/3 #typography #graphicdesign #logodesign #Arabic #Latin #lettering
This looks really interesting. Here is the link on Google podcasts: podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6L…
✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ 049. Writing Maya Glyphs with Artist Julia Kausch In this interview, we interview Mayanist and artist Julia Kausch. Julia shares her process for creating detailed replicas of Maya glyphs and art, as well as some insights into her research on ceramic
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I’m thrilled to announce that YouTube Sans KR got the TDC award!🥳🎉💖 Big applause to my friend Mingoo Yoon & Jieun Kim for amazing design—I’m so honored to be involved as a PM. Big thanks to @davelab6 and YouTube team for giving us a great opportunity! oneclub.org/awards/tdcawar…
✨ NEW EPISODE ✨ 049. Writing Maya Glyphs with Artist Julia Kausch In this interview, we interview Mayanist and artist Julia Kausch. Julia shares her process for creating detailed replicas of Maya glyphs and art, as well as some insights into her research on ceramic
This rare and fragile Persian-Malay manuscript can help us better understand the history of Persian speakers and Shīʿīsm in Indonesia. Majid Daneshgar wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about Or. 5658 and its links to the Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia: ➡️edu.nl/97b4e
@TBAlphabets @EAlphabets @CalStateLA Hmmm... Bugis? Can I get an ᨊ now? ;-)
@TBAlphabets @EAlphabets Lontara! It says: "I am a particularly charming script." ;-) One of my former @CalStateLA students made some pixelfont-style characters for it, where the "pixels" were rotated 45° to accommodate the script's structure!