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Ideology and typography

... Korea, the use of traditional Chinese characters alongside Korean hangul script has been officially discouraged, with the result that most ... it easier to control what people read. Most of the North Korean publications I have seen are set in gothic (’sans serif’, ...

Forum topic - arina s. - 29 Apr 2006 - 7:00am - 28 comments - 0 attachments

Help with a study abroad course: politics and type

... columns are still ordered from right to left. A Korean emperor developed the Korean writing system independently, I think around 1400. I don’t think ...

Forum topic - Maurice Meilleur - 14 Mar 2006 - 6:04am - 71 comments - 0 attachments

Number of bars on a yen

... $ in handwriting all the time! Probably influenced by the Korean and Japanese practice of using a Chinese character that looks like a ...

Forum topic - Nick Job - 19 Apr 2006 - 2:15pm - 21 comments - 0 attachments

Korean font recommendations

Can anyone recommend, or give me advice on, existing Korean OpenType or TrueType fonts? I am looking for typefaces that have ... Typophile wisdom: Paul Cutler › As far as I know, Korean As far as I know, Korean font vendor websites are not easy to use for ...

Forum topic - Ricardo Cordoba - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:56pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Cuban baseball homage to Comic Sans euro?

... an Italian passport. Just like the drug testing, that poor Korean pitcher only got to play in the first game before being made an example ...

Forum topic - sii - 20 Mar 2006 - 10:24pm - 15 comments - 0 attachments

My very first typeface, working title Dobong

... multilingual setting, including the Cyrillic, Greek, and Korean alphabets. This project was inspired by the insane difficulty I had with a recent paper I worked on, which was primarily in Korean but included Ukrainian Cyrillic, their Latin alphabet transcriptions, ...

Forum topic - Jongseong - 16 Mar 2006 - 4:56pm - 8 comments - 2 attachments

Underware Dolly: opinions?

... for these dark times. hhp The little Korean dog named The little Korean dog named Dolly - the font’s mascot, is certainly a happy element ...

Forum topic - Palatine - 19 Jan 2006 - 10:01am - 31 comments - 0 attachments

Artistic solitude

... Hispanic TV a lot... until I learned Spanish. Now I watch Korean. Which creates a great unease in wanting to learn that language: I ...

Forum topic - Kristina Drake - 28 Dec 2005 - 8:16pm - 25 comments - 0 attachments

(x) thin sans constructivist "Technique" - Penny Farthing {Mark S}

... Now that’s a goddam cool idea - pardon my Korean. And if it were anybody else but me you might be shocked to hear this, ...

Forum topic - jonathanlawley - 30 Dec 2005 - 5:02pm - 9 comments - 1 attachment

Holiday Planning and East Asian Font Shopping

... these include fonts for the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages/writing systems. Rounding out this month’s report is ...

News - dan_reynolds - 10 Nov 2005 - 3:04am - 0 comments - 0 attachments