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How Klarna internationalized its typography

May 27, 2022 by John Yunker

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 rapid pace. Shown here is the Japan home page: Francesco …

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Categories Fonts, Global By Design, Languages, Web fonts, Web Globalization

This is the golden age for multilingual (multi-script) fonts

January 17, 2022 by John Yunker

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 major languages. At the time, you needed to specify individual …

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Categories Fonts, Languages, Translation, Unicode, Vendors, Web fonts, Web Globalization

Taking emoji global: Google and Adobe

August 1, 2021 by John Yunker

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 a curious one — it previously looked like a very …

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Categories Adobe, Culture, Fonts, Global By Design, Google, Social, Usability, Web Globalization

Hyperglot shows you which fonts support which language(s)

April 6, 2021 by John Yunker

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 are supported. Not only is this a handy tool for …

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Categories Fonts, Global By Design, Languages, Unicode, Web fonts

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