Capital additions to Georgian typography
Akaki Razmadze, Jan Charvat ATypI 2016 • Warsaw, Poland Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw ASP
We will talk about the history of Georgian typography, today's condition and problems of users, caused by custom Georgian fonts. We'll introduce you to some workarounds to use Georgian uppercase letters which are still not supported by Unicode. We will review new standards for Georgian font-engineering, which contains diacritical marks for random Kartvelian languages. Beside that, we'll review Georgian copies of famous Monotype fonts and their design fundamentals.