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How can you design a typeface for a language you don’t speak?

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Ben Mitchell
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This is a really common question I’m asked, so I thought I’d write a few notes about why it’s not necessarily a central part of type design to speak a language. Continue reading →

Posted in Blog, non-Latin | Tagged language, non-Latin, script, type design, typography, writing system | Leave a reply

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