typography

Where Latin and Arabic Meet: A Bridging of Two Alphabets

Wonderful piece from The New Yorker on Lebanese designer Rana Abou Rjeily's creation of Mirsaal, a typeface family expressly designed to work in both the Latin and Arabic alphabets. In Mirsaal, the ca...

READ MORE | 30 Jun 2011
Do most languages need more space than English?

Fascinating Q & A post on the English Language and Usage web site that explodes some common misconceptions about the space efficiency of English on the page in relation to other popular languages....

READ MORE | 14 Oct 2010
The Beauty of Typography: Writing Systems and the Calligraphy of the World

Wonderfully written and illustrated article from Smashing Magazine on the typography of Asian and Arabic languages. As well as discussing how to differentiate diacriticals from radicals, the article h...

READ MORE | 19 May 2010