Challenges in Multilingual Type Design by David Brezina
Channel: Typography Day
Date: 2015-01-21

This paper was presented during the conference on Typography Day 2012 held at IDC School of Design IIT Bombay. The theme of the event was: 'Typography in Publication Design’. When designing multilingual type families, designers face challenges at the crossroads of linguistics, typography, and computer science. Type design is not only drawing nice letter shapes, it also deals with their optimisation for output, that is, with typographic layout, and demands of target media. The author conducted several case studies in different writing systems. The point is to illustrate the current challenges connected with typographic improvements in mentioned scripts. 
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