The Musalman is possibly the last handwritten newspaper in the world. Four professional calligraphers spend three hours on each page every single day to put out this daily paper.
Source: Wired
Thanks Valdemar!
Cyrillic
Thomas Phinney (Adobe’s Product Manager for Fonts & Global Typography at Image iT, Bologna, Italy) talks about designing pan-european OpenType fonts.
I recently had to make a work in Russian, so I started to investigate a little on the subject of non-latin type.
You have here “A Guide to using computers in Russian studies”.
For those more interested, next year there will be a TDC Non-Latin Weekend (2-4 March 2007).
More info at this Typophile Forum.
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