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A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.
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Strategy
Coherent
Essential
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A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
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Italian
Suit
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There isn't really a stylistic recipe for fonts to make them particularly suitable to be translated into different scripts.
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Scripts
Suitable
Recipe
Stylistic
Translated
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The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
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Ambiguous
Fussy
Forms
Letter
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Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
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Communication
Bedrock
Latin
Billion
Connect
Script
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Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.
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Dominating
Features
Matching
Cultural
Styles
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If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.
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Ice Cream
Thinking
Vegetables
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Lower case Ss are notoriously difficult to get right. But in Helvetica it's not straight - you want to go in there and tighten it up. And the 'a' looks so woolly and ill-conceived, it really winds me up.
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Looks
Want
Wind
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There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.
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Demand
Giving
Simplicity
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When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
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Aim
Rhythm
Scripts
Sympathetic
Texture
Ideally
Page
Tonal
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If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
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Imagine
Mess
Shapes
Forms
Emphasized
Feature
Letter
Literally
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The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
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Dark
Emerging
Fading
Five
Greek
Particular
Scripts
Stars
Subtle
Unfamiliar
Alien
Weights
Reflect
Stroke
Variations
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