An introduction to CJK fonts
The font studio Typotheque has released a new collection of CJK (Chinese Japanese Korean) fonts. And in doing so they also provided a wonderful overview of the challenges of designing …
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How Klarna internationalized its typography
Klarna is one of those Buy Now Pay Later companies that is seemingly on every ecommerce checkout page these days. And, not surprisingly, the company is expanding globally at a …
This is the golden age for multilingual (multi-script) fonts
In the early days of website globalization, there was no such thing as a “global font.” That’s because there was no such thing as a font that supported the world’s …
Taking emoji global: Google and Adobe
Two interesting posts to share about the globalization of emoji… GooglePolishing Up Emoji Emoji have a global audience and it’s important for them to be globally relevant. Pie emoji is …
Hyperglot shows you which fonts support which language(s)
This is an interesting new tool from the font designers at Rosetta: Hyperglot. As seen here, you can select a font (640 so far) and see which scripts and languages …
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