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- Title
Balancing Arabic and Latin typography.
- Authors
Milo, Thomas
- Abstract
Internet necessitates and Unicode facilitates multilingual typography on a scale never seen before. As a result, multilingual typesetting, something that used to be an obscure academic specialism, suddenly sprung to the limelight. Since printing with movable type originated in Europe in a Latin-scripted environment, other scripts still tend to be treated as a complement to Latin script and their measurements normalized accordingly. The challenge that designers are facing is to create computer typography that does justice to all scripts and cultures, according to their own standards. This makes it all the more relevant to come to terms with Arabic.
- Subjects
TYPOGRAPHIC design; ARABIC type; LATIN language; UNICODE (Computer character set); INTERNET; TYPESETTING
- Publication
Book 2.0, 2011, Vol 1, Issue 2, p239
- ISSN
2042-8022
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1386/btwo.1.2.239_1