Fonts: the Importance of Localisation

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Cyrillic Local Forms
Bulgarian Cyrillic Feature Locl
Serbian Cyrillic Feature Locl
Macedonian Cyrillic Feature Locl
Bashkir Cyrillic Feature Locl
Chuvash Cyrillic Feature Locl

Latin Local Features

Cyrillic

Cyrillic
Krista Radoeva

Serbian

Serbian
Vedran Eraković

Serbian

Serbian Cyrillic Feature Locl
Stefan Peev

Romanian

Romanian Alphabet
Cristian Paul

Chuvash

Chuvash Cyrillic Feature Locl
Stefan Peev

Turkish

Stefan Peev
TypeDrawers
Glyphs
I18nguy

Bulgarian

Bulgarian
Botio Nikoltchev

Bulgarian

Bulgarian Cyrillic Feature Locl
Stefan Peev

Dutch

Accented Dutch ij
Rainer Erich Scheichelbauer

French

French apostrophe
TypeDrawers

Bashkir

Bashkir Cyrillic Feature Locl
Stefan Peev

Polish

Polish Kreska
Adam Twardoch

Language as Design Criteria

Bianca Berning
Language as Design Criteria

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Other sources

Tags: Language System Tags
OpenType: Local Features (OpenType code)
Fontfabric: A closer look at the Bulgarian stylistic variation of the Cyrillic script

 

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2 thoughts on “Fonts: the Importance of Localisation”

  1. Stefan Peev

    Apostrophe word list – discussion on TypeDrawers
    http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1808/apostrophe-word-list#latest

  2. Stefan Peev

    I do think that localisation of a font is much more than glyph’s design and of glyph’s alternates. It’s an effort to stick to the essence of a given language.

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