Hello S

ParaType may also be a nice resource, for 'Multilanguage Fonts'..

Adobe's typefaces Minion Pro, Myriad Pro, Sava Pro and Warnock Pro all support both Adobe Cyrillic and Adobe CE languages (including Latvian).

Those are among the fonts listed on our Cyrillic page here: http://store.adobe.com/type/browser/C/C_cyrillic.html

Also, our next couple of releases, Garamond Premier Pro and Hypatia Sans Pro, will support those languages.

Regards,

T

Congrats on Hypatia.
1) What does it look like?
2) What does the name mean?
3) How do we pronounce it? :-)

hhp

Its kind of a geometric sans with a lot of humanist touches. Or maybe a humanist sans with some geometric characteristics in the lowercase. The caps are very much in the classic Roman proportions.

It's named after the Greek philosopher and mathematician who was torn to pieces by a mob in Alexandria as part of a religious/political conflict. Some sources suggest she was the last head librarian of the famous library, though in truth this seems doubtful.

Pronouncing it is an interesting question. I understand the Greek way would be something like ee'-pah-tee"-a (heaviest stress on the third syllable). But I only have that second-hand (Gerry Leonidas via David Lemon). The typical western way would be high'-pay"-she-uh or high'-pay"-sha. I tend to go for the last one myself. I guess since it's my typeface that makes it the one true way?

Torn between the twin mobs of geometry and humanism, eh? ;-)

> I guess since it's my typeface that makes it the one true way?

Not in practice. :-)
Since you'll have virtually no opportunity to recommend pronunciation*, it's really out of your hands. My guess is it will vary a lot based on geography: Americans will tend to pronounce it "high-pay-shia"** while Europeans will say something like "hee-patia".

* Just like the usage itself of the font!

** Hmmm, sounds like an Iranian cleric:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4414895.stm
:-)

hhp

To further Tom's agony, I think I'll go for the ecclesiastical Latinisation hi-PA-tsi-a

They always pronounced the name of the porn star Hypatia Lee "high-PAY-sha LEE". Which is also the first thing I think of whenever I see the name Hypatia. My humanities teachers would be so proud.

Thanks for those links!

Hrant, I thought you might notice this thread ...
I haven't been that active in typophile the recent years ... but I remember how many of your postings I enjoyed to or three years ago (a lifetime) in the typography newsgroup. Roy Preston was there, too, but he doesn't seem to have crossed over to typophile.

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Soren O

Roy says his dial-up connection is too slow for Typophile.

hhp