Tag: diacritics
By David BĹ™ezina The globalization of the type market and rising interest in multilingual typeface design is a source of great optimism among many typographers. Yet despite the proliferation of these beautiful new typefaces, many still do not support some European languages, let alone cater for African and Asian languages. In fact, contrary to the […] Squiggly Bits This poster makes reference to the paucity of diacritics in English. And, when they are employed, they’re often used on loan words—like the French cafĂ©, for example. Here’s a little pre-Sunday Type challenge for you: name all the diacritics (or diacritical marks), and name the typeface used. Poster designed by Michael Ciancio (you’ll […] Fraktur Mon Amour Before I begin, I’d like to thank all those who helped me fix a problem with some of my posts not displaying. Special thanks to Travis and also to Michael over at WP Candy. And all on Twitter. If you haven’t used Twitter, then I recommend it. Part 4: Numerals and Punctuation—by Paul Dean Read Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 5 “The very air of the room seemed charmingly alive with little floating dollar signs and fat little ciphers, commas, more ciphers, all winging around happily, waiting for a mere scratch of the pen to call them […]
On diacritics
January 24, 2009
Diacritical Challenge
October 3, 2008
Sunday type: crossword type
May 12, 2008
eXtreme Type Terminology
April 25, 2008
