Re: Vertical Arabic text?

From: Marco Cimarosti
Message: 3592
Date: 2004-10-25

Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
> Inter-script typography can bend the brain in interesting ways. What
> would Garamond-style Hebrew look like? Or Frank-Rhuel Cyrillic...

I have seen a Cyrillic Fraktur!

Terrible: that's like a Roman centurion wearing a wrist watch...

> I have my "Times Hebrew" font, of Hebrew letters made from Times-Roman
> elements, and there's the (in)famous Schonfield Hebrew script of
> http://www.geocities.com/snortar/schonfield.html (actually
> uglier than my Times Hebrew, and that's saying something).

I have seen Times-like Devanagari and Arabic, and I bet your font cannot
possibly be as ugly as *those*.

--
Marco

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