Fonts in other languages
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- ninjasavant
Here's something I always wondered. Font making for roman character languages (English, French, Spanish, Italian) seems to be steeped in tradition with a noble heritage that can elicit visceral responses in designers and non-designers alike. I always wondered if there's such a letterform subculture in other languages like Greek, Russian, Japanese, Hindi, etc. I know Mandarin and Japanese there's a big societal tie in with calligraphy but has that made it into fonts? Is the creation of fonts in other languages as defined or process heavy? Any good examples of nice non-roman fonts?
Signed,
Curious on a Sunday
- pylon0
Good question.
Most opentype fonts have a cyrillic character-set as well, so I'd *guess* that it's fairly important with them as well. I know that are a couple foundries that specialise in hebrew fonts — but I don't for the life of me remember their names...- most?
I'd say 1 in 20 at bestVectorMasked - Well, 'pro' adobe ones for instance....pylon
- true. But there's very very few “pro” fonts. These few tend to be for the larger and expensive families like fedra, dax, meta....VectorMasked
- most?