At 11:25 2/19/2002, danielyacob wrote:

>Anyway, I'm hoping people here might know terms for two orthographic
>occurances. The first a term for the practice of superimposing a
>foreign typeface style on a script. For example rendering Hiragana in
>a European Gothic typeface, or writing Roman with Japanese style
>strokes?

The term 'Latinisation' has been used by some type designers on the ATypI
members discussion list to describe the influence of Latin type design on
the typographic evolution of other scripts (Armenian is often cited as an
example). I don't know of a more general term, and the usage is confusing
in any case since 'Cyrillisation' is used in the same community to refer to
the development of Cyrillic typefaces based on existing Latin designs.

Speaking of such, I was highly amused by the Ethiopic font modelled on
German blackletter that appeared in one of your Unicode conference slides.
Can you tell me from where this font is available? Thanks.

John Hudson

Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@...

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