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7th ICTVC 2019 | Challenging design paths
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by
Klimis Mastoridis
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published
Feb 10, 2019
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last modified
Feb 10, 2019 06:07 PM
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filed under:
brand-identity,
business,
calligraphy,
design-method,
editorial-design,
education,
environmental-lettering,
graphic-design,
history,
intellectual-property,
lettering,
linguistics,
printing-methods,
reading,
research,
technical,
type-design,
type-technology,
typography,
usability,
writing-systems
7th International Conference on Typography & Visual Communication (ICTVC), Main Conference 19–21 June | Workshops 17–18 June 2019, Patras, Greece
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A Typography for India
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by
Rathna Ramanathan
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published
Jan 09, 2017
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filed under:
type-design,
typography,
writing-systems
Rathna Ramanathan
ATypI 2016 • Warsaw, Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ASP
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Athena Ruby
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by
John Hudson
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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type-design,
type-technology,
writing-systems
Athena Ruby: when shape has meaning. Presentation by John Hudson to ATypI Letter.2 in Buenos Aires on 4 October 2011
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Black and white in Indian typography
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by
D. Udaya Kumar
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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calligraphy,
history,
typography,
writing-systems
By D. Udaya Kumar. India is a diverse country with multiple scripts, Tamil and Sanskrit being the earliest among them. The ancient script, Brāhmī is the root of all Indian scripts. The script is also the parent to several other major script families of Central and Southeast Asia. Each of these Indian scripts evolved on its own course over centuries. The medium and tools used for writing played an important role in the evolution process.
The palm leaf manuscripts were one of the major mediums used for written communication during the early periods. Their writing system and calligraphy were unlike the Far Eastern and Western calligraphic cultures. The concept of black and white was no concern for the calligrapher. In the majority of manuscripts the content was more important than the aesthetics of lettering or composition. On the other hand the present scripts have its roots from the unique writing system and medium. The scripts that has evolved with such culture and written practices reflected the same in the contemporary typography. Similar to the manuscript calligraphy the present typography that is seen all around has no concerns for the black and white. This raises the several important questions such as, is it important to balance the black and white in typography? Does the concept of black and white really matters in typography of Indian scripts?
This paper primarily aims at understanding the concept of black and white in Indian typography especially in Tamil script. It discusses the calligraphy on palm leaf manuscript, influence of the medium and its writing system on letterforms. It also explores the issues related to aesthetics in Indian language typography in comparison to Western typography.
From the ATypI 2012 conference in Hong Kong.
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Development of pan-CJK fonts
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by
Jürgen Willrodt
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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type-design,
type-technology,
writing-systems
By Jürgen Willrodt. The development of fonts which are usable and acceptable in different countries using CJK ideograms in Asia requires the usage of multiple locale glyph variants for different countries. We discuss the technical requirements for such a font, the different options for implementation and the production process using the Ikarus font production system. We show as an example the integration of different CJK locales into our Nimbus Global font family.
From the 2012 ATypI conference in Hong Kong.
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Directionality in Korean type design
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by
Aaron Bell
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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history,
reading,
research,
type-design,
writing-systems
Hyun-Guk, Ryu and Aaron Bell discuss Hangeul’s incomplete transition from a traditionally vertical script to a horizontal script. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam
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Everyday handwriting
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by
Sue Walker
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published
Jan 09, 2017
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filed under:
calligraphy,
writing-systems
Sue Walker
ATypI 2016 • Warsaw, Poland
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ASP
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Hanzi-Graphy
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by
Mariko Takagi
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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research,
type-design,
writing-systems
Mariko Takagi talks about a research project started in 2011 to bridge the two “contrary” writing systems by typographic means. From the 2013 ATypI conference in Amsterdam.
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IV Encuentro Internacional de Bibliología
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by
dario Manuel muhafara
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published
Aug 30, 2016
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filed under:
calligraphy,
editorial-design,
education,
linguistics,
printing-methods,
writing-systems
La materialidad de las escrituras: de la paleografía y la tipografía digital
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Learning how to swim
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by
Roman Wilhelm
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published
Dec 20, 2010
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last modified
Aug 26, 2015 11:39 PM
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research,
type-design,
typography,
writing-systems
On
“Multilingual Typography / Cohabitation typographique / Koexistenz der Zeichen” and
“Learning How To Swim: Issues in Latin-Chinese Typeface Design” PDF slides from the ATypI 2012 conference in Hong Kong.
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