tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54819401620836761972024-03-14T11:49:20.472-07:00Google Fonts BlogNews and updates from the Google Fonts teamtobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04028054474788286862noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-79101781948044792502023-03-28T09:39:00.017-07:002023-03-29T11:15:19.519-07:00Why are there so few digital Nasta’liq Urdu fonts? <div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4ca8c5c-7fff-e7a5-bca0-8a3d7e2965be"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju01lmOfyIi4MZ6Bn5rrf74BBSrKhWeXW1fevvd6RY1-cS9zDPoFW8-8Dv4K6-6UCw197ClFO5eHtIgG3VCHKp8wJwhwqLgHzvmy9kzwKFZ1IIOJyokQ3C10yHw2bvZHBdMXx-r7gSDIjKKWUJ_LptJt4HXRDpcD_4sYzH53Nfaq5MLvxfgeYDeQT-/s3072/Urdu_blog_hero.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="3072" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju01lmOfyIi4MZ6Bn5rrf74BBSrKhWeXW1fevvd6RY1-cS9zDPoFW8-8Dv4K6-6UCw197ClFO5eHtIgG3VCHKp8wJwhwqLgHzvmy9kzwKFZ1IIOJyokQ3C10yHw2bvZHBdMXx-r7gSDIjKKWUJ_LptJt4HXRDpcD_4sYzH53Nfaq5MLvxfgeYDeQT-/w715-h359/Urdu_blog_hero.png" width="715" /></span></a></div><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/Urdu fonts-Urdu.html" target="_blank">اردو ورژن</a></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Urdu is the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers" style="text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">first language of over 70 million speakers</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and a </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers" style="text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">second language to over 160 million people</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, mostly in Pakistan and India. Due to both design and engineering challenges, there were only a few typefaces available for the Urdu language in the preferred Nasta'liq writing style of the Arabic writing system. The scarcity of </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasta'liq </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">typefaces was so dire that some newspapers and other printed materials were written by hand. Urdu speakers still sometimes write emails and messages in Romanized Urdu (the transliteration of Urdu in the Latin alphabet). </span><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why are there so few Urdu fonts? </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></h2><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If there is such a large population of Urdu speakers, you might wonder why there are so few typefaces for this population. One reason is that technology companies have not seen Urdu-speaking communities as important markets and have not invested resources to develop Nasta’liq typefaces. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Let’s go back in history and review some features of the Urdu language, the Nasta'liq script, and technological problems to find some more reasons.</span></p><br /><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Writing the Urdu language</span></h2><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To a great extent, the Urdu language is similar to Hindi. Speakers of both languages can understand each other. Yet the writing systems used for each language are very different. Hindi is written from left to right in the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Devanagari writing system</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, while Urdu is written from right to left in the Nasta'liq style of the Arabic writing system. When calligraphers used to write Nasta’liq by hand, they traditionally used a reed pen. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Container with reed pens" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/f_zt10M9xoaVcGlvXVr_dPeGhSkKym0qDc7ppUMVk2Hnicya5yg0LhsMk32vq_H-4hOeL8a1mh0h0vxtirHOrzQTl4pKuj9kK_cPXYRbgCiMJHd-dK5cF3m4muPeEnPtioyFGtV1Nu1iT7BsIM7mqgPtMX8tb0xgl9Lb4_Lw6NMChQMjnIGJGkqO2rnMYsE=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" title="Reed pens used for Nasta’liq calligraphy, Photo credit: Borna Izadpanah" /></div><div><i style="color: #2b00fe; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></i></div><p style="text-align: left;"><i style="color: #2b00fe; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reed pens used for Nasta’liq calligraphy, Photo credit: Borna Izadpanah</span></i></p><div><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasta'liq </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">was initially developed to represent the Persian language but has also been used to write other languages</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish, Pashto, Sindhi, Persian, and Uyghur. Today, most Arabic typefaces used for those languages in printed books, newspapers and digital platforms use a simplified form of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(script)" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Naskh style</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. However, most Urdu books and newspapers are still printed with Nasta'liq type, which takes up more vertical space than simplified Naskh and has a more cursive style. </span></div><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Two lines of Urdu text in black" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/sU-kSGWTHKfuBk-v8qIZXEypespthG4gqc60pJ426_D_ipORhZT7jHQJe6TnRqNBeRGTsJxBowmbjDzJVjA5Po6cV8WTx6a-tvRnE-OHJErB8h-NwvVSDmT6r-BnLaVlC2s8YZYqdwMln2OLWM7ccNWR_896jgl0G_maHvGiLLWu0kvYlQnIOh6Jimx6RB8=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><h4 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; white-space: normal;"><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">1. Nasta'liq
</span></span></i></p><p><i style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Naskh</span><br /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Transliteration: Ab apne aap se bhi chup gai hai
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
An Urdu poetry verse (“</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now she is hiding from herself too”)</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by the poet Zehra Nigah, set in the </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar Nasta’liq</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> typeface (top) and in a simplified Naskh typeface Markazi (bottom). </span></span></span></i></p><p></p></span></h4><h4 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Urdu cascades</b></span></h4><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latin and many other writing systems can be written with unconnected letters and are more horizontally aligned on the </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/baseline" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">baseline</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. In contrast, </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">"most Arabic script writing styles are written in a cascading format </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in which characters are joined on</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> multiple horizontal levels.” explained Borna Izadpanah, the designer of the Gulzar typeface. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Typesetting technologies have been primarily designed for non-joining and horizontally aligned scripts like Latin. The cascading nature makes Nasta'liq typeface design, production, and composition more software reliant than Naskh. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Designers have to find a solution for </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/kerning_kerning_pairs" style="font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">kerning</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> the cascading forms and the precise positioning of </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/diacritic_accent_marks" style="font-size: medium; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: normal;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">diacritic dots</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> for vowel marks to avoid clashes and overlaps.
</span></span></p><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Two words in black, vowel marks in red, arrow showing vowel marks moving downwards" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UpbJggt3-QxPHlvMNjQttgNZCJUtP7rjqyObO0RMkmgliGLB_bc0vmK6qf69igjywBjleEIJmBaVWGvQnBB3SyiS3odTj719Q_Mw5Vf_8NCis_mQK_GTn4kpklvcUfd6krX7U0QD0YRW6tTYlKoZgzq_cMqMPuBlqEKzKAF951_i8oJvOcT1cjdcpQIVQA4=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><p style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-41be4ba8-7fff-db36-292c-e9fba186bfcf"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The word “computer” کمپیوٹر in the Gulzar typeface. </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From right to left:</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. The diacritical dots used in the word are shown in their default positions.</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Since this word has two dotted letters consecutively, the leftmost set of dots must be moved downwards to avoid a collision.</span></span></i></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>
</i></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-c4ca8c5c-7fff-e7a5-bca0-8a3d7e2965be"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Cursor moving right to left as characters change" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Da0KGJtFTPJ3K6DAO_QYRjs4WxtWccfZbTklxYHwp-3SRt403c8OJ1zhtHpPn691_qBH6_Ai0NTg6ZOMkon3x-rZb9yYkhYJQ3EphhCUVAzp2b8J_fvNTi7av8NgLwwVjfrQbStOjvT3rjC4Eh8t27afKrdbxS0ppBuqgssWU5X9Z5y-sxdpGktuymI2Ly4=s16000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 6pt;"></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From right to left. </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This animated GIF shows the composition of characters with kerning and also how dots and marks move around to avoid clashes and overlaps. Characters change shapes depending on the letters that come before and after. (Set in the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar typeface.)</span></i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><i>Translation: “How to type in Urdu on your computer”.<br /></i><i>
</i></span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Transliteration: </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Apne computer pe Urdu mein kaise type karein
</span></span></i></span></p><p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The bari-ye vowel </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Designers have to pay special attention to the </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> vowel (ے, /eː/ /ɛː/) which frequently appears in Urdu. Even though Urdu is written from right to left, the </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sweeps backwards (left to right) and underneath preceding letters, especially impacting dotted letters which precede it. </span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Circled numbers above text in black" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/9BsQqNY44AVRYXauhzRzSdUT9665ZJoA6DJPR-KDAjETflDrHWF51XxtS8Rp_VA-57PXgLtdOtYnthhSL9qOo2K08kalvlSyK8ryHLM_HofU1Rm4jOV8Rb3RYaeTUf0ApqWwizp0buQe7XMWcZd_cjiHgnqzBC24Tje1OnzyIVffK5HrnhYnBr4Q8Mvb8Gw=s16000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">From right to left: <br /></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Unconnected form of </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye<br /></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2-5: Sequence of characters in words ending with </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The arrows show the downward shift of diacritical marks to avoid clashes and overlaps with the </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.<br /></span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(Set in the Gulzar typeface.)</span></span></i></span></p><div><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shapeshifting</span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Nasta'liq, letters change their form based on their position in the word (initial, medial, final, and unconnected) and depending on the </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">neighboring </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">letters before and after. </span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Urdu letters in black on beige background" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/XH39t_tOoBlzSBsi-gZhqvbNY9qubC4-_qlMVkUdfcLkbPB9V_fsli_HcZBsqpWPOMKehC24zAaBx5U47hBuKoJ96fL42oCY0TOVb1jc8YTR8yIClo3qdIb4wID-EUYcYqSQSr6zmu7a9JzgAfA2j43ikdaq0ACRUh6ZfnGbWCld7R-jrn0w383zmmTE9yM=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">From right to left: The letter پ (“</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">P” sound) </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in initial position (circled and in red) taking different shapes based on the next letter. (Set </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in the Gulzar typeface.)</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
</span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Latin has something similar to shapeshifting. I</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">n some Latin writing styles, letters change depending on their position and connection to the letters around them. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Lowercase combinations of o and n, o and r, and o and x" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/d0p6Idex-dkrauqj3ECltvFzEbxpoZwvjgaF4YUITBE_ZlAFlUNOowL0i2pR1g9nAWIDI8E58fX2uW2owhGVSr4c0Roz6ZChRsqyjLI2SkSO0pjqrpRyvO-XtnMsCvGGu2bc4Qotft9hXXwUAKtjDwwpGvY5A7O7iatFVPq0SStl1bkPcEL3GL8uIYAiS7g=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-f5e9bc9b-7fff-b210-0259-71123f3ade4f"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The angles of the connecting strokes of the lowercase “o” change depending on the following letter. Set in </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Style+Script" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Style Script</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Robert Leuschke</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></i></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">One of the main differences between the Latin and Arabic writing systems is that Latin can be written in both connected cursive and unconnected forms, but the Arabic letters (apart from a few exceptions) must be written in a connected form. Additionally, most Arabic letters alter their shape depending on the preceding and following letters. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Technical difficulties</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Urdu Nasta'liq is poorly supported on digital platforms because the writing system requires software-intensive support. S</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ome text-rendering systems/software are not designed to accommodate it. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For a long time Urdu speakers have had to </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">use existing simplified Naskh typefaces with distorted Urdu characters or find a way to hack operating systems to install their preferred Nasta'liq typefaces. However, this is changing. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span></span></p><a name='more'></a><p></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts has two Urdu Nasta'liq fonts, </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Nastaliq+Urdu" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Noto Nasta'liq Urdu</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (a variable font) and </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. To learn about how Gulzar was made and new tools to make typefaces for </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">typographically </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">complex scripts such as Nasta'liq, read <a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/gulzar-expanding-variety-of-urdu.html " target="_blank">Gulzar: Expanding the variety of Urdu Nasta’liq options</a></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To learn more about Urdu Nasta'liq: </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><a href="https://medium.com/@eteraz/the-death-of-the-urdu-script-9ce935435d90" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Death of the Urdu Script</span></a></p><a href="https://restofworld.org/2021/bringing-urdu-into-the-digital-age/?utm-source=sharing" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">How to bring a language to the future</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-22ade994-7fff-8a28-9930-f955cd0c41a9"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by the Google Fonts team</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-86569864365872389032023-03-28T09:39:00.016-07:002023-03-29T09:26:18.148-07:00Gulzar: Expanding the variety of Urdu Nasta’liq options<div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="white-space: normal;"><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img height="312" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/L3hiY1C22WE22bKKJC9LR8dfrI-9JHCDXKrCUkReBpds4umjPuYeTdLOhWvJv4WJBVTuvUxmH3Umesg2ci4fg4y-3n1AhjCPHTYtKLPYbv0l8oBYnnJ-LqarksURYI4gV1h1-TGaOAtaZmVQadidhaE-7zHU2nLc1n6FwnhbMrZI8gOT6Y9kAq_fZ4_oAigMhcSQfeKnTlgwfWSCA746MVB59o0CoeI7HEUjVQ" style="font-size: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></h2><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/blog-post.html" target="_blank">اردو ورژن</a></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" target="_blank">Download Gulzar</a></span></div><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt;"><span style="font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Making of Gulzar</span></h2><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To give Urdu speakers more typeface choices, in July 2022, Google Fonts added </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a new Nasta’liq Urdu typeface. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 18pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; white-space: normal;"><span></span></p><div style="text-align: center; white-space: normal;"><p><img alt="Four lines of white text on a black background" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mOGaMSKJlC6MYwiX5BhEMuRJgajPcFOEupb72lYSQL74i9-wB24WoObzj_8k2HTMWR3indlgIAL_5emhunZYwnL12nuQGlw0G_-knFNsMhWhMsif0LkZoVMbcfjoGqCBSNk3o4YPd8iNbXxoVwaMyb1BaUSxwEYd-jX-jU63_IqhQzBA9SY5AmU7L01y2nKvHjIW6vMUZU9yg9XyopMs2deMyGufLR_J7U9SMQ=s16000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" /></p></div><span style="color: #333333; white-space: normal;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. Gulzar Nasta’liq </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">2. Gulzar Latin </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: black; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; white-space: normal;"><span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All human beings are born free and equal in terms of rights and dignity.” in Urdu (Gulzar Nasta’liq) and transliterated in Latin (Gulzar Latin)</span></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p></span></span></div></span></span><br style="white-space: normal;" /></span></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" target="_blank">Simon Cozens</a>, </span><a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/staff/dr-borna-izadpanah" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Borna Izadpanah</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and </span><a href="http://reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fiona Ross</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="color: black;">conducted their own research and consulted with Urdu language specialists in Pakistan and the United Kingdom to create the Gulzar Urdu Nasta’liq typeface project. Gulzar means “flower meadow” in Urdu.
</span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Izadpanah is a native Persian speaker from Tehran, Iran. He learned Nasta’liq as a model for Persian handwriting in primary school.</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Designing a digital </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasta’liq typeface</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> was my long-held dream</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">,” Izadpanah stated. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As the principal Gulzar designer, he conducted the preliminary research and drew the </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/glyph" style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">glyphs</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ross was familiar with the Urdu language and type design from her language studies and earlier work on two Nasta’liq typefaces, Sheeraz and Qalmi, for which </span><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linotype acquired a patent</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To make a modern digital font based on the Urdu flavor of the Nasta'liq style, Izadpanah studied the proportions, stroke modulation, and character features in </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/calligraphy" style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">calligraphy</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">manuals and a collection of </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/lettering" style="font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">lettering</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> specimens.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">“The outlines in Gulzar are carefully drawn. Small details like terminals are designed to look clear and consistent in different sizes. We also made several revisions to improve the curves and achieve smooth connections,” explained Izadpanah. </span><div><div class="separator" style="text-align: left;"><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><br /></span></span><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Two Urdu letters in white on black background" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/mh5lB8YbzMYk8BuM2Yq-AmSp0d7Vd6R7xAFok_vM4MbtGJeyqgZCCXOxC821Z29NjdOHwuqzAGN840QYOFCMWT42mZX4Y6begl2r5Gq7EYJt96-g9NKguUdmdakHk2VaN3RI25WvhL0JSaV2Ucd96b_sksHb6mRUQ44NB5k4jm-Wbhgd6DVIFbXNl0zgdne0N5V4IggWwPsyEDH_of4p3uH7CllnGwDrwODxAA=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span><span><span style="text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sharply cut terminals (in green). </span><br /><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letters (from right to left): </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س - Seen, <br /></span></span><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Letters (from right to left): </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س - Seen, </span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">ح - Hey</span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Five versions of the letter Ain" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/Dy9bgNCI7SPIKyZjHc6P0UCIDmY9MnIjGmmXN7uUJrn7VkfiNTpHufSx04JqakvIM3NTMsMQN-pJPVRNCP_G8dabmu6YTWOuM5MI0GxZ3YrQYR9VYxBmBUEueyVg95-3K8VUKuu8yLUSrEo-xq5g3vf2eoXhvFtKZ4w447e1Hqvx0qTMQP36cRWf0DeBN8UTEFZrakn4a67BaJb47Jsg_CwdB-79gjW_0L3VeA=s16000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<p style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From right to left: The team started by studying various calligraphic forms of the letter ع to understand better the particularities of the Urdu Nasta'liq and its conventions (a calligraphic reference on the right). The design went through four stages of development until the team agreed on the final version of the unconnected "ain" letterform on the left. The Ain letter makes the /ɑː/, /oː/, /eː/, /ʔ/, /ʕ/, /∅/ sounds. </span></span></p></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></div><h3 style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Engineering challenges. </b></span></span></h3><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To make it easier to design Gulzar, font engineer Simon Cozens created two open source tools. Simon Cozens was the Gulzar font engineer. Since he didn’t speak or read Urdu, he embarked on self-study of the written language. Urdu is written from right to left. Like other languages using the Arabic writing system, the same letter in Urdu has different forms depending on its position in the word (initial, medial, </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">final and unconnected</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I gained familiarity with the script by carefully examining Urdu poetry, religious texts, and other materials. First, I learned to recognize the rhythm and overall feel of the design. Then I associated individual letters with one another, until finally I was able to recognize them in their different contextual forms (initial, medial, final, and unconnected),” explained Cozens.</span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens worked with the designers to set up a method for creating a set of glyphs for the font. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the Nasta’liq style, each joining letter must connect smoothly to the one on its left and/or right with the correct stroke thickness and direction, following the calligraphy rules for the reed pen, the conventional writing tool used for Nasta’liq.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Three sets of Urdu letters with numbers and text labels" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/QVtmrKFpbntom10-1vouzzuZBEuxU3NqzEp8RXXpH0I54hh2VTwtLnL9K05IZuDM-2DKww9xiYGFzWFNtmeflwEK6j0PrGzscRdminUr-7U0Sg5PyyCslQ9aCup2-ZEWoyOCgAvoVRhzyEOUGo4g1SazoVshQsAqzate_WMg2OIJu8RticqaY6-cvdyCM6JVn8HC6Ig9mBfJDKZvJ-kmrqz7ANw5WYrpamBjMg=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span>These are combinations of letters, not words.</span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #2b00fe; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Basic shapes of the letters without dots (from right to left):</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ب </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Beh in (green)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ھ</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Heh Doachasmee (white)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seen (orange)</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: The default form of initial Beh (green) ends with an upward stroke when connecting to the letter Seen (orange). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2: When a calligrapher writes the sequence Beh + Heh (green + white), the pen stroke does not turn upwards (as shown in the middle) but must continue to flow smoothly downwards into the middle stroke of the Heh (white). </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Final result for the Beh + Heh combination: The glyph used for Beh (green) must be changed to a different variant that reflects the pen’s movement into the Heh (white).</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Gulzar, there are 20 different possible variations for the initial form of the letter Beh, depending on the letter to its left. Each of those 20 variations of the letter must connect smoothly to the next letter.</span></p><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Two Urdu letter combinations with numbers" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/HYXUXIIuE-XjSuMIpaTyK95y5xFn4cgUzKDL2nzPnn13uezsmI4MUgCXzaUpt-tECqBWreL1hPbCKzN-rkhioSvRHQHZtjD6iUYIG0sfcxqBdq3s396w6J1KIQXp0jWBTRAGy9x6VJPJawHIxS2lZNgz77-MkcYiGkIvsoAWvNv4wQGdf0cQCyzcMldGnzkhsuV5xah6zNERaIrh1yFtIPCPsa2ZgwYqXMfoYg=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Basic letter shapes without dots: </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. ک, </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kaaf (green)</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. ب, </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Beh (orange) </span></span></div><span><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. ھ, </span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Heh (white) </span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. ں</span><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Noon ghunna (purple)</span></div></span></span><div><br /></div><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe; white-space: pre-wrap;">Both sequences start with the same two letters (Kaaf #1 in green and Beh #2 in orange). Yet both the Kaaf and Beh letterforms are different in each sequence. Different Beh variants were selected based on the letter to its left. Since the Beh variants have different stroke thicknesses, appropriate variants of the Kaaf are chosen to match the Beh’s stroke thickness.</span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Gulzar, there are 9686 potential letter combinations. </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There are various initial or medial forms of 29 letters of the Urdu alphabet that could </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">potentially connect to one of 334 different variants to the left of the letter. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In some of the previous Urdu fonts, designers had to calculate and draw all the possible thousands of letter combinations. This was an arduous and costly task. Few font foundries wanted to take on such a large financial undertaking requiring a large staff and budget. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To facilitate the Gulzar design process, font engineer Simon Cozens created two open source tools. To avoid the need to hand draw the letter combinations and to simplify the management of letterform variants and combinations, Cozens created the </span><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar/blob/main/engineering.md#glyph-connections" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasta’liq Connection Editor</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a Glyphs font editor extension using </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/open_type" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OpenType technology</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. He drew on the innovative </span><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">patented work</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> that Ross and her colleagues, Michael Fellows and Timothy Hollway, had done to make the Sheeraz and Qalmi fonts without the need for such extensive character sets. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Nasta’liq Connection Editor extension allows the type designer to easily choose the</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> intended form of each letter</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from a spreadsheet (left) and see how the two characters looked in the preview panel (right). (The extension can also be used for any Arabic writing style, not just Nasta’liq.) </span></p><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Spreadsheet with six columns and 13 rows" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sa6cBr8d8Az9AoTJKSzsO4JoT9V0tlIj0FQldPLIXjeZ4b-jgM3kE8WOlfcfTAjto9awIjeND0Njv3iIgGZRhjuKtMvD40p8Vuw8tIFx7l0IncUXogQQIsIlfJB4CSjjEctyT86ir7zySbTLGgwjia96y1gAeU3xiIQbfijZHz_ccbaud2moG_WC73IhbggC1J6lorvaBsATsb_kPUWo4yLqCVrhenbo0xPNjg=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /></div></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. The preview panel shows the two selected letters (Ain ع and Fe ف ) in one of their medial variants.</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span>2. Selection of Ain ع variant AINm4 and Fe ف variant FEm9.<br /></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">The left and top rows have names assigned to each letter followed by their position (i = initial), (m = medial), (f = final) and (u = unconnected). The number 4 in the columns is a code for a glyph variant.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-66b3731d-7fff-82dc-3421-41daa63e596d"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“OpenType technology provides the ability to ‘sew’ together different glyphs so that the top of one glyph becomes the new baseline for the next. The designer puts a mark, or ‘anchor’, in each glyph where the previous and next glyphs should be attached,” explained Cozens.</span></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /><br /></span></p><p style="color: #2b00fe; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; color: #2b00fe; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Four Urdu letters with numbers" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FHnxjE4QcxMDbncvPYBrO3aE7xy15Qx6fMnlpdnO_cPzdqomrQvXhmCZqlTU0C1POh-kbybq0aKcv6oMUtgLiqip26VZ_TrhZ2SUxTwZ5eMd04aF5XweTe09qdlm2Jmr4pC21yPt1O_bLQfo78E_ZgE8san8a9TxcpMn_txTusNbjBLwQA7bNZGYOcXuk0AnVlBe_q2iSjH6CivkWN6lQB1VV5GcCozrxf5fkw=s16000" style="margin-top: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">1. ج “Jim”
</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">م “</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Meem”
</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">3. Exit anchor
</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; white-space: pre-wrap;">4. Entry anchor</span></span></p></div></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7c3b5f11-7fff-c7bd-b520-a05393152c8a"></span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">From the right: An initial form of the letter ج “Jeem” (red) has an exit anchor which is connected to the entry anchor on the medial form of the letter </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">م “Meem” </span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(green). The composed form of the two characters is shown on the left.</span></span></span></span></p></div></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens also created </span><a href="https://fez.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" style="background-color: white; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Fez</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the (“Font Engineering made eaZy”) system for handling typographically complex scripts such as Nasta’liq Urdu. The font engineer describes the script's behavior using either the Fez or Python programming language, and the system determines the necessary rules.</span></span><br /><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">For example, Cozens used Fez to find the many variations that are needed for the vowel bari-ye as it frequently appears in Urdu words. Even though Urdu is written from right to left, the bari-ye sweeps backwards (left to right) and underneath preceding letters. For more information about the </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">bari-ye, </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">see <a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/why-are-there-so-few-digital-nastaliq.html" target="_blank">“Why there are so few Urdu fonts?” </a></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span style="background-color: white; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I wrote a plugin which measures the length of the tail, measures the width of each glyph, and then produces a set of combinations,” explained Cozens. By having the computer do the work of evaluating the different possible letter sequences, Cozens found a way to manage the complexity that comes with engineering a Nasta’liq font.
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color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">This artwork shows the letter Jim ج from Gulzar and the terminology and mathematical method used in Urdu to describe the different parts of the letter and its conventional proportions.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">There used to be few Urdu typography choices. </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Now, with more Urdu fonts to use as reference models and new open source tools, Urdu type design is democratizing and diversifying as more people can make Urdu fonts to meet readers’ requirements. </span></span></span><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar is open source and has a </span><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GitHub project</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where people can find the font files and post issues and comments to contribute. </span></span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar is open source and has a </span><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar" style="text-align: center; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GitHub project</span></a><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where people can find the font files and post issues and comments to contribute. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens, Izadpanah, and Ross see their work as a contribution not just to Nasta’liq type design, but also to Urdu language publishing and culture. “The Gulzar project aims to encourage type designers to make more Arabic typefaces </span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that address the linguistic requirements and stylistic preferences of various languages that use the Arabic script</span><span style="font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.” said Izadpanah and Ross. </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><img alt="" border="0" class="placeholder" id="b862fe53acdcd" src="https://www.blogger.com/img/transparent.gif" style="background-color: #d8d8d8; background-image: url('https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/i/materialiconsextended/insert_photo/v6/grey600-24dp/1x/baseline_insert_photo_grey600_24dp.png'); background-position: center; background-repeat: no-repeat; opacity: 0.6;" /></span></div><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZQgzLGSoUkGkSzFyPc_FqbGb0YU8UPAqtZaVuzdJRD9xQUJ7wt_YU3BdskRa1hnXzyMlNUlsJZu8i-l8_2jK8Noydp4CFAj7MYMngRFKHczEaAMjFLyJcoazEhIUpKusr9NfEHJf2mwiaZsni2gtJS9s2maL5Lb06Zxd2KfFSBvhgf6DRkLGlY3N/s2400/Gulzar_9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTZQgzLGSoUkGkSzFyPc_FqbGb0YU8UPAqtZaVuzdJRD9xQUJ7wt_YU3BdskRa1hnXzyMlNUlsJZu8i-l8_2jK8Noydp4CFAj7MYMngRFKHczEaAMjFLyJcoazEhIUpKusr9NfEHJf2mwiaZsni2gtJS9s2maL5Lb06Zxd2KfFSBvhgf6DRkLGlY3N/s16000/Gulzar_9.png" /></a></div><br /><span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Gulzar banner </span><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: black;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="font-family: inherit;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gulzar</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is available on Google Fonts. </span></span></span><p></p></div></span></div><div style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Currently, Gulzar fully supports the Arabic, Persian, and Urdu languages. </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar is the first Urdu Nasta'liq typeface that includes an original Latin counterpart. The Latin typeface, designed by </span><a href="https://frenchtype.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Alice Savoie</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, matches the typographic color of the Nasta’liq Urdu design</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The Gulzar Latin character set contains sufficient characters with diacritic marks to transliterate Urdu into Latin.</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">
Bios: </span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simon Cozens</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a font engineer based in Gloucester, UK. He specializes in OpenType layout of complex scripts, and operates </span><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a73e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corvel Software</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, which enables type designers to support the world’s languages.
</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/staff/dr-borna-izadpanah" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Borna Izadpanah</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a Lecturer in Typography at the University of Reading, UK, where he received a PhD, and an MA in Typeface Design. His doctoral research explored the history of the early typographic representation of the Persian language. Izadpanah has received numerous prestigious awards for his research and typeface design, including the Grand Prize and the First Prize for Arabic Text Typeface in the </span><a href="https://www.granshan.com/competition-2015-%E2%80%93-winners" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Granshan Type Design Competition</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a </span><a href="https://www.tdc.org/work/lalezar/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, and the Symposia Iranica Prize for the best paper in </span><a href="https://symposia-iranica.com/prizes" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art History</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><a href="http://reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fiona Ross</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> specializes in type design and typography primarily for Arabic, South Asian, and Thai scripts, She has a background in languages and Ph.D. in Indian Palaeography from the </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">School of Oriental and African Studies (</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SOAS), where she had studied </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sanskrit with Pali. </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She is Professor in Type Design at the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication (University of Reading, UK). She works as a consultant, type designer, author, and lecturer and has co-curated seven international exhibitions. Ross received the </span><a href="https://www.typesociety.org/typography/#:~:text=The%20Society%20of%20Typographic%20Aficionados%20created%20the%20Typography%20Award%20in,their%20peers%20and%20fellow%20aficionados." style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SoTA Typography Award (2014)</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and the </span><a href="https://www.tdc.org/recognizing-excellence/the-tdc-medal/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type Director’s Club Medal (2018)</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She leads the </span><a href="http://women-in-type.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Women in Type</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> research project.</span></span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Resources: </b>
</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://gulzarfont.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar website</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (more information on the methodology and technology behind Gulzar)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gulzar GitHub directory</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fez.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fez program</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar/blob/main/engineering.md#glyph-connections" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nasta’liq Connection Editor</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linotype patent for the Qalmi and Sheeraz fonts</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fellows, Holloway & Ross in 1989)
<span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted by </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #2b00fe; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">the Google Fonts team</span>
</span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p></span></span></div></div><span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: left;"><br /></h2></span></div></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-32983773803208414922023-03-28T09:38:00.005-07:002023-03-28T11:51:23.202-07:00 اتنے کم ڈیجیٹل نستعلیق اردو فونٹس کیوں ہیں؟<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1cbd1a5-7fff-9268-e579-92fdf7022319"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b id="docs-internal-guid-4680744d-7fff-1333-966e-1010ae887376" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; font-size: medium; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="312" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/VSY_oaTWEO6Qzt5c2dhQfaGDsetD-sSxm24sMsbFllJP8LwW-jUnVTpFpDlWxSyNmsukFqbG1oBirzbCxxVISEPmuyghqcvK1CaIfPDxbyLp0f-WYX7bWyC_fTs1IHtRJFKv_n06C05OT207PR120_T4KCIRlI4bbPNqizQ-Ivx4Oprjw9qv8_uA1as_2Ds" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/why-are-there-so-few-digital-nastaliq.html" target="_blank">English version</a>
</b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">70 ملین سے زیادہ بولنے والوں کی پہلی</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اور</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">160 ملین سے زیادہ لوگوں کی دوسری زبان ہے</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">، جو زیادہ تر پاکستان اور ہندوستان میں ہیں۔ ڈیزائن اور انجینئرنگ دونوں چیلنجز کی وجہ سے، عربی رسم الخط کے ترجیحی نستعلیق تحریری طرز میں اردو زبان کے لیے صرف کچھ ٹائپ فیسس ہی دستیاب تھے۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">نستعلیق</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> ٹائپ فیسس کی کمی اس قدر شدید تھی کہ کچھ اخبارات اور دیگر مطبوعہ مواد ہاتھ سے لکھے جاتے تھے۔ اردو بولنے والے اب بھی کبھی کبھی رومن اردو میں ای میلز اور پیغامات بھیجتے ہیں (لاطینی حروف تہجی میں اردو نقل حرفی)۔ </span></span></p><h2 dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اتنے کم اردو فونٹس کیوں ہیں؟ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></span></h2><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">آپ سوچتے ہوں گے کہ اگر اردو بولنے والوں کی اتنی بڑی آبادی ہے تو اس آبادی کے لیے اتنے کم ٹائپ فیسس کیوں ہیں۔ ایک وجہ یہ ہے کہ ٹیکنالوجی کمپنیوں نے اردو بولنے والوں کی کمیونٹیز کو اہم مارکیٹس کے طور پر نہیں دیکھا اور نستعلیق ٹائپ فیسس تیار کرنے کے لیے وسائل کی سرمایہ کاری نہیں کی۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">آئیے تاریخ میں واپس چلتے ہیں اور کچھ اور وجوہات جاننے کے لیے اردو زبان کی کچھ خصوصیات، نستعلیق رسم الخط اور تکنیکی مسائل کا جائزہ لیتے ہیں۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><h2 dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو زبان کی تحریر</span></h2><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کافی حد تک، اردو زبان ہندی سے ملتی جلتی ہے۔ دونوں زبانوں کے بولنے والے ایک دوسرے کو سمجھ سکتے ہیں۔ پھر بھی ہر زبان کے لیے استعمال ہونے والے رسم الخط بہت مختلف ہیں۔ ہندی </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">دیوناگری رسم الخط</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> میں بائیں سے دائیں لکھی جاتی ہے، جب کہ اردو عربی رسم الخط کے نستعلیق انداز میں دائیں سے بائیں لکھی جاتی ہے۔ جب خطاط نستعلیق کو ہاتھ سے لکھتے تھے تو وہ روایتی طور پر سرکنڈے کا قلم استعمال کرتے تھے۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="سرکنڈے کے قلم والا کنٹینر" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/LiXvTJBEfefPUr6IcDZFakQyavoATOaabRRDY0nncSY0ZCGU9bCWekHtJsKd_u8bZe-ZJFg4ag1j2K8dxIFn_9R06b4_9aqasC2CZFXmExkSBmprbqGxLPLL97SA_jHHVjHAKZwZ0JJZQim87Gly8-GLHMnqsIF48MHf6QN5K2XKKE8npsV_OB1jFeRlDps=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> نستعلیق خطاطی کے لیے استعمال ہونے والے سرکنڈے کے قلم</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Roboto,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">فوٹو کریڈٹ</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">: </span><span face="Roboto,sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">برنا ایزدپن</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">نستعلیق </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کو ابتدائی طور پر فارسی زبان کی نمائندگی کرنے کے لیے تیار کیا گیا تھا لیکن اسے دیگر زبانوں کو لکھنے کے لیے بھی استعمال کیا گیا ہے</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">، جن میں عثمانی ترکی، کرد، پشتو، سندھی، فارسی اور اویغوری شامل ہیں۔ آج، مطبوعہ کتابوں، اخبارات اور ڈیجیٹل پلیٹ فارمز میں ان زبانوں کے لیے استعمال ہونے والے زیادہ تر عربی ٹائپ فیسس </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naskh_(script)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">نسخ طرز</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> کی ایک آسان شکل استعمال کرتے ہیں۔ تاہم، زیادہ تر اردو کتابیں اور اخبارات اب بھی نستعلیق قسم کے ساتھ چھاپے جاتے ہیں جو آسان نسخ کے مقابلے میں زیادہ عمودی جگہ لیتی ہے اور اس کا انداز زیادہ خمیدہ ہے۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="سیاہ رنگ میں اردو ٹیکسٹ کی دو سطریں" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/dTqHtNmAoXdpobvQRXztq6QFMTjSKsjgwADrm2aik2XH3-_29b-lk_aWiMVpGHA3kPCTFAPnWiWkokmusbj0b9V_cPlVa-qHy30amooqvLUhXk_6fcOBwjqJ6NihuJh4qevla1dZbVk5u_DGRE0SBKxJEMRfOx7ouZSXXF8ktcY9I4XcYGqjw9WpH4hlwI0=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1۔ نستعلیق</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2۔ نسخ</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">شاعرہ زہرا نگاہ کی اردو شاعری کا ایک مصرعہ ("اب اپنے آپ سے بھی چھپ گئی ہے") جو </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">گلزار نستعلیق</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> ٹائپ فیس (اوپر) اور ایک آسان نسخ ٹائپ فیس مرکزی (نیچے) میں تحریر ہے۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو آبشار</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">لاطینی اور بہت سے دوسرے رسم الخط غیر منسلک حروف کے ساتھ تحریر کیے جا سکتے ہیں اور </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/baseline" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بیس لائن</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> پر زیادہ موافق ہوتے ہیں</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">۔ اس کے برعکس، </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">"زیادہ تر عربی رسم الخط کی طرزِ تحریر ایک آبشار والی شکل میں لکھی جاتی ہیں </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">جس میں حروف کو</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> متعدد افقی سطحوں پر جوڑا جاتا ہے۔" گلزار ٹائپ فیس کے ڈیزائنر </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">برنا ایزدپناہ</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> نے وضاحت کی۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ٹائپ سیٹنگ ٹیکنالوجیز بنیادی طور پر لاطینی جیسی غیر منسلک اور افقی طور پر موافق رسم الخط کے لیے ڈیزائن کی گئی ہیں۔ آبشاری نوعیت نستعلیق ٹائپ فیس کے ڈیزائن، پروڈکشن اور کمپوزیشن کو نسخ سے زیادہ سافٹ ویئر پر انحصار والا بناتی ہے۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="سیاہ رنگ میں دو الفاظ، سرخ رنگ میں حرف علت کے نشان، تیر جو نیچے کی طرف بڑھتے ہوئے حرف علت کے نشانات دکھا رہا ہے" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CFrThpLyUkW5YFzqvQ6_Kt-X33kKuS9eDggqSgm3zCDwS4366T8lYuoWV2lWU_rj7iCpYhcZ6K95ugJSczZummPaT73LKKFczo_0A1dSAzD6w93KxeJoOdSqX0fyLkwmYSxocTY3XaJhSLsN3XNn5-UIcE0hlBI4sUAp9uB-9r6RinAy5i-VmOCppTJXPg4=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ڈیزائنرز کو </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/kerning_kerning_pairs" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کرننگ</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> کی خاطر تصادم اور اوورلیپس سے بچنے کے لیے آبشاری شکلوں اور حرف علت کے نشانات کے لیے </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/diacritic_accent_marks" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">تفریقی نقطوں</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> کی درست پوزیشننگ کا حل تلاش کرنا ہوگا۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">گلزار ٹائپ فیس میں "کمپیوٹر" کمپیوٹر لفظ۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">دائیں سے بائیں:</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1۔ لفظ میں استعمال ہونے والے تفریقی نقطوں کو ان کی ڈیفالٹ پوزیشن میں دکھایا گیا ہے۔</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2۔ چونکہ اس لفظ میں سلسلہ وار طور پر دو نقطے والے حروف ہیں، اس لیے تصادم سے بچنے کے لیے نقطوں کے سب سے بائیں سیٹ کو نیچے کی طرف لے جانا چاہیے۔</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /><br /></b></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 135px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="حروف کے بدلنے کے ساتھ کرسر دائیں سے بائیں منتقل ہو رہا ہے" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/oemvwSOdbiOyVSHx1wEDRxABLDqKMFimioqsvyC2nNrMe4-uerhA4Wdac9-Ma25a9qtQOM-QqqICLBkfztWo1kuDoYeBcmtcrkGMCpFslrrUsBT-ANFtWpZZrSWDoM4mrDwyCwtLQ2rh2A---9UMFtjsl6_h4YtaxOePzdpg38l0nnsEWzSnym6KPPjEWUk=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">دائیں سے بائیں۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">یہ انیمیٹڈ GIF کرننگ کے ساتھ حروف کی کمپوزیشن کو دکھاتا ہے اور یہ بھی کہ کس طرح نقطے اور نشانات تصادم اور اوورلیپس سے بچنے کے لیے گھومتے ہیں۔ حروف پہلے اور بعد میں آنے والے حروف کے لحاظ سے شکلیں بدلتے ہیں۔ (گلزار ٹائپ فیس میں سیٹ۔)</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ترجمہ: "اپنے کمپیوٹر پہ اردو میں کیسے ٹائپ کریں"۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">حرف علت بڑی ے</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ڈیزائنرز کو </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بڑی ے</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> حرف علت (، /eːے/ /ɛː/) پر خصوصی توجہ دینے کی ضرورت ہوگی جو اردو میں اکثر ظاہر ہوتا ہے۔ اگرچہ اردو دائیں سے بائیں لکھی جاتی ہے، </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بڑی ے</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> پیچھے کی طرف (بائیں سے دائیں) اور پچھلے حروف کے نیچے جاتا ہے، جو اس سے پہلے آنے والے نقطے والے حروف کو متاثر کرتا ہے۔ </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="ٹیکسٹ کے اوپر سیاہ رنگ میں دائرہ کردہ نمبر" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/BFqK8OcWTO3SC4O3TqJqkk4h4SfAw3Ch7gTQOqy9_MbkA-FCFfiOGlv5KLRHC4MUfUgmgaqTnWa_Kw4DBca3Ld8mfB8iV7oEQnGwqoXbu3WhU-hy63E_o6_pGoU80W4lAhygBKm0zsf2Zac_CBvW9yegKqWjx1iRuCxCQtFu115CiZPsA53MY5QU3PrhqDM=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">دائیں سے بائیں: </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">1۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بڑی ے</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> کی غیر منسلک شکل</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">2-5: الفاظ میں </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بڑی ے</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> سے ختم ہونے والے حروف کی ترتیب</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بڑی ے</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> کے ساتھ تصادم اور اوورلیپس سے بچنے کے لیے تیر تفریقی نشانات کو نیچے کی طرف بڑھتے ہوئے دکھا رہے ہیں۔</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">(گلزار ٹائپ فیس میں سیٹ۔)</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">شکل بدلنا</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">نستعلیق میں، حروف لفظ میں اپنی پوزیشن (ابتدائی، درمیانی، حتمی اور غیر منسلک) اور اس سے پہلے اور بعد کے </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">پڑوسی </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">حروف کی بنیاد پر اپنی شکل بدلتے ہیں۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="خاکستری پس منظر پر سیاہ میں اردو حروف" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CuLcuIRJYhlov6PUpauMMx9r-Frt_nZoOqr-YOWspZ6UzUfdNtdvdhh__bmXZQ_Mlf9rYocqQMQ4X0MiLVjLSdy9OrIhg0xZdGOxI7fGGrLQVSo-fqtg0-Zd-MOS5XysTMpCfq8x0ZRbsFjpbdx-hIuGrMlqS3AKtjn2vGk0l2vPQjzDy8hb6Gn1fXi0EYw=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">دائیں سے بائیں: ابتدائی پوزیشن پر حرف ("Pپ" کی آواز) (دائرہ کردہ اور سرخ رنگ میں) بعد کے حرف کی بنیاد پر مختلف شکلیں لے رہا ہے۔ (</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">گلزار ٹائپ فیس میں سیٹ۔)</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">لاطینی میں شکل بدلنے کا نظام کچھ مماثل ہے۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کچھ لاطینی تحریری طرزوں میں، حروف ان کی پوزیشن اور ان کے ارد گرد حروف سے تعلق کے لحاظ سے تبدیل ہوتے ہیں۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="border: none; clear: right; display: inline-block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><span style="clear: right; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="o اور n, o اور r اور o اور x کے چھوٹے حروف کے امتزاج" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/NtsGBBq_KXXauMxzoJ66sL93bOQ87yx1qiEonW-sPcSyOOJQBTeIBwWp8CAwp8XMN3oxvzgzX-Z9edcEWYyEYrCBAAd7SvsoIP0rXnXi70x2cXaEYtgD1sFlPTwv3bvLXiijDI8v5NwhIv3G82QXS_so2XBl10AbZUwiblimrbw0Ec4k4xsx-V52Ky6oV1I=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: red; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">چھوٹے حروف "o" سے منسلک ہونے والے اسٹروکس کے زاویے درج ذیل حرف کی بنیاد پر تبدیل ہوتے ہیں۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Robert Leuschke کی طرف سے</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Style+Script" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Style Script</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> میں سیٹ</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">۔</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">لاطینی اور عربی رسم الخط کے درمیان ایک اہم فرق یہ ہے کہ لاطینی کو منسلک خمیدہ اور غیر منسلک دونوں شکلوں میں لکھا جا سکتا ہے، لیکن عربی حروف (چند مستثنیات کے علاوہ) کو منسلک شکل میں لکھا جانا چاہیے۔ اس کے علاوہ، زیادہ تر عربی حروف پچھلے اور بعد والے حروف کے لحاظ سے اپنی شکل بدل دیتے ہیں۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">تکنیکی مشکلات</span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو نستعلیق کو ڈیجیٹل پلیٹ فارمز پر ناقص تعاون حاصل ہے کیونکہ رسم الخط کو سافٹ ویئر کی انتہائی مدد کی ضرورت ہوتی ہے۔ </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کچھ ٹیکسٹ رینڈرنگ سسٹم/سافٹ ویئر اس کو ایڈجسٹ کرنے کے لیے ڈیزائن نہیں کیے گئے ہیں۔</span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ایک طویل عرصے سے اردو بولنے والوں کو </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">بگڑے ہوئے اردو حروف کے ساتھ موجودہ آسان نسخ ٹائپ فیس استعمال کرنا پڑ رہا ہے یا اپنے ترجیحی نستعلیق ٹائپ فیسس کو انسٹال کرنے کے لیے آپریٹنگ سسٹم کو ہیک کرنے کا راستہ تلاش کرنا پڑتا ہے۔ تاہم، یہ بدل رہا ہے۔ </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">—--</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Google Fonts کے پاس دو اردو نستعلیق فونٹس ہیں، </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Nastaliq+Urdu" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">نوٹو نستعلیق اردو</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> (ایک متغیر فونٹ) اور </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">گلزار</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">۔ گلزار کو کیسے بنایا گیا اور </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">ٹائپوگرافی </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کے لحاظ سے پیچیدہ رسم الخط جیسے نستعلیق کی خاطر ٹائپ فیسس بنانے کے لیے نئے ٹولز کے بارے میں جاننے کے لیے، پڑھیں (</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/gulzar-urdu .html" target="_blank">گلزار کے مضمون کا لنک</a></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">)۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو نستعلیق کے بارے میں مزید جاننے کے لیے درج ذیل مضامین پڑھیں (مضامین انگریزی زبان میں ہیں): </span><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span><a href="https://medium.com/@eteraz/the-death-of-the-urdu-script-9ce935435d90" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">اردو رسم الخط کی موت</span></a></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-edacd0d6-7fff-87b3-e134-3c15a0880905"></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://restofworld.org/2021/bringing-urdu-into-the-digital-age/?utm-source=sharing" style="text-decoration: none;"><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="-webkit-text-decoration-skip: none; background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">کسی زبان کو مستقبل میں کیسے لایا جائے</span></a><span face="'Google Sans',sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>Google Fonts Team <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">کے</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">ذریعہ</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">شائع</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">کیا</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">گیا۔</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></p></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-52817054971222542292023-03-28T09:37:00.003-07:002023-03-29T09:31:12.511-07:00 گلزار: اردو نستعلیق کے اختیارات کی مختلف اقسام کو وسعت دینا<div dir="rtl" style="text-align: right;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-4e32d7d3-7fff-e0c5-3522-dfa2a9ad1f8d"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img height="312" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5RhLWqxIuBXitRN2Fdld6UL7L-9Dshz8kVd1GHQqonDuPvouXJqgZm2Y7B6fUQm9ddeA6WoXhBvygXSRebjt57yOfnIz4yCEoNB8HxjAnSLcSVLdNVDznv_0iWY1sVXaltLUNLdPS4K-9HoIwxAqzOidYMVd7xHTqNx6wIjqGOV1FoB0-VHZmJ-OhlGwwRCaR-WwZCU7xT6w3Wz7fveVDzOH9j8v5ZL-s7H9oA" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="624" /></span></span></p><h2 dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/gulzar-expanding-variety-of-urdu.html" target="_blank">English version</a></span></h2><h2 dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار کی تیاری</span></h2><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اردو اسپیکرز کو ٹائپ فیس کے مزید انتخاب دینے کے لیے، جولائی 2022 میں، Google Fonts نے </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> شامل کیا، جو کہ ایک نیا نستعلیق اردو ٹائپ فیس ہے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; 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font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1۔ گلزار نستعلیق</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2۔ گلزار لاطينی </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #6c757d; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">تمام انسان آزاد اور حقوق و عزت کے اعتبار سے برابر پیدا ہوئے ہیں۔“ اردو میں (گلزار نستعلیق) اور لاطینی میں ترجمہ شدہ (گلزار لاطینی) </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simon Cozens</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/staff/dr-borna-izadpanah" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Borna Izadpanah</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> اور </span><a href="http://reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fiona Ross</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> نے گلزار اردو نستعلیق ٹائپ فیس پروجیکٹ تخلیق کرنے کے لیے اپنی خود کی تحقیق کی اور پاکستان اور برطانیہ میں اردو زبان کے ماہرین سے مشورہ کیا۔ گلزار کا مطلب اردو میں ”پھولوں کا مرغزار“ ہے۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Izadpanah تہران، ایران سے ایک مقامی فارسی اسپیکر ہیں۔ انہوں نے پرائمری اسکول میں فارسی ہینڈ رائٹنگ کے نمونے کے طور پر نستعلیق کو سیکھا۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”ڈیجیٹل </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق ٹائپ فیس</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ڈیزائن کرنا میرا دیرینہ خواب تھا</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“، Izadpanah نے کہا۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">پرنسپل گلزار ڈیزائنر کے طور پر، انہوں نے ابتدائی تحقیق کی اور </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/glyph" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">glyphs</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ڈرا کیے۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ross اردو زبان اور ٹائپ ڈیزائن سے اپنی زبان کے مطالعے اور دو نستعلیق ٹائپ فیسز، شیراز اور قلمی، پر اپنے گزشتہ کام کی وجہ سے واقف تھیں، جس کے لیے </span><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Linotype نے ایک پیٹنٹ حاصل کیا</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق طرز کی اردو قسم پر مبنی ایک جدید ڈیجیٹل فونٹ بنانے کے لیے، Izadpanah نے تناسب، اسٹروک ماڈیولیشن، اور </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/calligraphy" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">کیلی گرافی</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">مینوئلز اور </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/lettering" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: black; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">حرف نگاری</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> کے متعدد نمونوں میں حروف کی خصوصیات کا مطالعہ کیا۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”گلزار میں آؤٹ لائنز احتیاط سے کھینچی جاتی ہیں۔ چھوٹی تفصیلات جیسے ٹرمینلز کو مختلف سائزوں میں واضح اور مستقل نظر آنے کے لیے ڈیزائن کیا گیا ہے۔ ہم نے منحنی خطوط کو بہتر بنانے اور ہموار کنکشنز حاصل کرنے کے لیے کئی نظرثانیاں بھی کی ہیں،“ Izadpanah نے وضاحت کی۔ </span></p><br /><p style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 12pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="سیاہ پس منظر پر سفید میں دو اردو حروف" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/psCbAX7bim7v1qsBybVN9VAXnGTj75PW9TQwasjmvnSDZ-o2zUSaaikkF6XI9qBZRrAHY2l4EhxeZu5fcRKPbnrbieR3Oz8kWaRJ2X_XGQnLfrhjVzrYRJY-Ys2DtZXApDyZUE6KlEJWCXBEn40XHr3aGX8N7Sk1m2s98RC74J_OfzV2pRoE-2jZSjGSPhdWeeFegiZlT5ieUFYrHu2RnxP3ZQZFVR1yyVI57A=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">تیزی سے کٹے ہوئے ٹرمینلز (سبز رنگ میں)۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">حروف (دائیں سے بائیں): </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س - س</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ح - ح</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><br /><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="حرف ع کے پانچ ورژن" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/BPti3ISAtLyZMbrO3xAuPbqUmkH7qQ75WIZdSNyQtTfryBLol1Dzo7OPpcBC2fYE4l16rfi6wtddmhAV8KhrbJp3PxXeTQ-8cuQrz26gsdHNb9PtjdD1Ns4xIvRnBsL8Cdxq6MUhjzP8CFvRqjCuDF5UqrFV4TkZikleqlaBMaQmdLqQIraQN3os_a30gsiYIHNfdXA0wojmjxspOZfNo-WmEG8GS47PyEl4Zw=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">دائیں سے بائیں: ٹیم نے اردو نستعلیق کی خصوصیات اور اس کی روایات کو بہتر طور پر سمجھنے کے لیے حرف ع کی مختلف خطاطی شکلوں کا مطالعہ کرکے آغاز کیا (دائیں طرف کیلی گرافک کا حوالہ)۔ یہ ڈیزائن ترقی کے چار مراحل سے گزرا یہاں تک کہ ٹیم بائیں جانب دکھائے گئے غیر منسلک ع حرف کی صورت کے حتمی ورژن پر متفق ہو گئی۔ حرف ع /ɑː/, /oː/, /eː/, /ʔ/, /ʕ/, /∅/ کی آوازیں بناتا ہے۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><h2 dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 18pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">انجینئرنگ چیلنجز</span></h2><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار کو ڈیزائن کرنا آسان بنانے کے لیے فونٹ انجینئر Simon Cozens نے دو اوپن سورس ٹولز تخلیق کیے۔ Simon Cozens گلزار فونٹ انجینئر تھے۔ چونکہ وہ اردو بولتے یا پڑھتے نہیں تھے، اس لیے انہوں نے تحریری زبان کا خود مطالعہ شروع کیا۔ اردو دائیں سے بائیں لکھی جاتی ہے۔ عربی تحریری نظام استعمال کرنے والی دوسری زبانوں کی طرح، اردو میں ایک ہی حرف لفظ میں اس کی پوزیشن کے لحاظ سے مختلف شکلیں رکھتا ہے (ابتدائی، درمیانی، </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">حتمی اور غیر منسلک</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">)۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”میں نے اردو شاعری، مذہبی تحریروں اور دیگر مواد کا بغور جائزہ لے کر رسم الخط سے واقفیت حاصل کی۔ سب سے پہلے، میں نے ڈیزائن کی تال اور مجموعی انداز سے واقف ہونا سیکھا۔ اس کے بعد میں نے انفرادی خطوط کو ایک دوسرے کے ساتھ منسلک کیا ، یہاں تک کہ آخر کار میں انہیں ان کی مختلف سیاق و سباق کی شکلوں (ابتدائی ، درمیانی ، حتمی اور غیر منسلک) میں پہچاننے کا اہل ہو گیا،“ Cozens نے وضاحت کی۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens نے ڈیزائنرز کے ساتھ مل کر فونٹ کے لئے glyphs کا ایک سیٹ بنانے کا ایک طریقہ ترتیب دیا۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق طرز میں، ہر ملنے والے حرف کو اپنے بائیں اور/ یا دائیں طرف والے حرف سے صحیح اسٹروک موٹائی اور سمت کے ساتھ ہموار طریقے سے منسلک ہونا چاہیے، سرکنڈے کی قلم کے ليے کیلی گرافی کے قواعد پر عمل کرتے ہوئے، جو کہ نستعلیق کے ليے استعمال ہونے والا روایتی تحریری آلہ ہے۔</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="نمبرز اور ٹیکسٹ لیبل کے ساتھ اردو حروف کے تین سیٹ" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/0DynDuAEKldWtZoiW2xJSUMv3V1rIfjUse9U-0zzAjDkIZplbEXsoiw9Trsyk358V6shrAeW5NGdcwIRbPzpZpKVCd9zedkT5UKq_IYyR5QxzDpdruzOnvVqEUgRNA2Ubr7WIL2B7rwKzemnuDOLV_mJgAZNk9X9fO0dKyx2Y_4cRSpAhshZwT0cL2hKOb6HweGXCnrdP1LJuK-DFSqzmltiBILy6jjV2PE5eg=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">یہ حروف کے مجموعے ہیں، الفاظ نہیں۔</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نقطوں کے بغیر حروف کی بنیادی شکلیں (دائیں سے بائیں):</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ب</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(سبز) میں ب</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ھ</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ھ دو چشمی (سفید)</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">س (نارنجی)</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1: ابتدائی ب (سبز) کی ڈیفالٹ شکل س (نارنجی) کے حرف سے جڑتے وقت اوپر کی طرف اسٹروک کے ساتھ ختم ہوتی ہے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2: جب ایک کیلی گرافر ترتیب ب + ھ (سبز + سفید) لکھتا ہے تو قلم کا اسٹروک اوپر کی طرف نہیں مڑتا (جیسا کہ درمیان میں دکھایا گیا ہے) بلکہ ھ (سفید) کے درمیانی اسٹروک میں آسانی سے نیچے کی طرف بہنا جاری رکھنا چاہیے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">3۔ ب + ھ کے امتزاج کا حتمی نتیجہ: ب (سبز) کے لیے استعمال ہونے والے glyph کو ایک مختلف قسم میں تبدیل کیا جانا چاہیے جو قلم کی حرکت کو ھ (سفید) میں ظاہر کرے۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار میں 20 مختلف ممکنہ تغیرات ہیں ب </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">حرف کی ابتدائی صورت کے لیے </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، اس کے بائیں طرف موجود حرف کی بنیاد پر۔ حرف کے ان 20 تغیرات میں سے ہر ایک کو اگلے حرف سے ہموار طریقے سے منسلک ہونا چاہیے۔</span></p><br /><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="ہندسوں کے ساتھ دو اردو حروف کا مجموعہ" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/gXl2-lL5tiHmRB42FgtuGcOH7pbJ9pbkXjtO2u90nw6YLhZA4o57Ggh7RyKQFnp8nvl7ssIEJlOcLT5dULPqAAYr8AquTb60TuJtdysi8bKgAEH3BeLUHbW-8cyEbpY1Pc3w1grOder0kGcXj74434A5bXI84GvjfBeoHHv_mAmmUlVNYVRMlfGEM85K-4PCA-5Lj3k6OGAcxp5pjbv759ECGoCG6UH5qybj2g=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: red; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نقطوں کے بغیر حرف کی بنیادی شکلیں: </span></p><ol style="font-size: large; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 5pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ک</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ک (سبز)</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ب</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ب (نارنجی) </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ھ</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ھ (سفید) </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Jomhuria, cursive; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ں</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، ں (جامنی)</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p></li></ol><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">دونوں سلسلے ایک ہی دو حروف سے شروع ہوتے ہیں (سبز میں کاف #1 اور نارنجی میں ب #2)۔ پھر بھی ک اور ب دونوں حروف کی صورت ہر ترتیب میں مختلف ہے۔ اس کے بائیں طرف کے حرف کی بنیاد پر ب کی مختلف شکلیں منتخب کی گئیں۔ چونکہ ب کی مختلف حالتوں میں اسٹروک کی موٹائی مختلف ہوتی ہے، اس لیے ک کی مناسب اقسام کو ب کی اسٹروک </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">موٹائی سے مماثلت کے لیے منتخب کیا جاتا ہے۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار میں، 9686 ممکنہ حروف کے مجموعے ہیں۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اردو حروف تہجی کے 29 حروف کی مختلف ابتدائی یا درمیانی شکلیں ہیں جو </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ممکنہ طور پر حرف کے بائیں جانب والے حرف کی 334 مختلف شکلوں میں سے کسی ایک سے منسلک ہو سکتی ہیں۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 6pt 0pt 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">پچھلے اردو فونٹس میں سے کچھ میں، ڈیزائنرز کو حروف کے ممکنہ تمام ہزاروں مجموعوں کا حساب لگانا پڑتا تھا۔ یہ ایک مشکل اور مہنگا کام تھا۔ چند فونٹ فاؤنڈریز ہی اتنے بڑے مالیاتی اقدام کو اپنانا چاہتی تھیں جس کے لیے ایک بڑا عملہ اور بجٹ درکار تھا۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار ڈیزائن کے عمل کو آسان بنانے کے لیے، فونٹ انجینئر Simon Cozens نے دو اوپن سورس ٹولز بنائے۔ حروف کے مجموعوں کو ہاتھ سے کھینچنے کی ضرورت سے بچنے کے لیے اور حروف کی مختلف صورتوں اور مجموعوں کے انتظام کو آسان بنانے کے لیے، Cozens نے </span><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar/blob/main/engineering.md#glyph-connections" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق کنیکشن ایڈیٹر</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> نامی ایک Glyphs فونٹ ایڈیٹر نامی ایک ایکسٹینشن تیار کی اور اس کیلئے انہوں نے </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/open_type" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OpenType ٹیکنالوجی</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> کا استعمال کیا۔ انہوں نے اس دستیاب اختراعی </span><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">پیٹنٹ کام</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> کو استعمال کیا جو کہ Ross اور اس کے ساتھیوں Michael Fellows اور Timothy Hollway نے شیراز اور قلمی فونٹس کو حروف کے اس طرح کے وسیع سیٹس کی ضرورت کے بغیر بنانے کے لیے کیا تھا۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق کنکشن ایڈیٹر ایکسٹینشن کی مدد سے ٹائپ ڈیزائنر </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ہر حرف کی مطلوبہ شکل</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> کو ایک اسپریڈشیٹ (بائیں) سے منتخب کر سکتے ہیں اور دیکھیں کہ دو حروف پیش نظارہ پینل (دائیں) میں کیسے نظر آتے ہیں۔ (ایکسٹینشن صرف نستعلیق ہی نہیں بلکہ کسی بھی عربی طرز تحریر کے لیے بھی استعمال کی جا سکتی ہے۔) </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1۔ پیش منظر پینل دو منتخب حروف دکھاتا ہے (ع ع اور ف ف ) ان کے درمیانی تغیرات میں سے ایک میں</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2۔ ع ع مُتغیر AINm4 اور فف مُتغیر FEm9 کا انتخاب۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">بائیں اور اوپر والی قطاروں میں ہر حرف کو نام تفویض کیے گئے ہیں جس کے بعد ان کی پوزیشن (i = ابتدائی)، (m = medial)، (f = فائنل) اور (u = غیر منسلک)۔ نمبر 4 کالمز میں ایک glyph مُتغیر کا کوڈ ہے۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”OpenType ٹیکنالوجی مختلف glyphs کو ایک ساتھ 'سلائی' کرنے کی صلاحیت فراہم کرتی ہے تاکہ ایک glyph کا اوپری حصہ اگلے کے لیے نئی بنیاد بن جائے۔ ڈیزائنر ہر glyph میں ایک نشان، یا 'اینکر' لگاتا ہے جہاں پچھلے اور اگلے glyphs کو منسلک ہونا چاہیے،“ Cozens نے وضاحت کی۔</span></p><br /><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; 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font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 5pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ج ”ج“ </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">م ”</span><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">م“</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">باہر نکلنے کا اینکر </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="rtl" style="font-family: "Google Sans", sans-serif; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin-right: 2.65pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="rtl" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-right: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 0pt 3pt; text-align: right;"><span style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">داخلے کا اینکر</span></p></li></ol><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">دائیں طرف سے: حرف کی ابتدائی صورت ج ”جیم“ (سرخ) میں باہر نکلنے کا ایک اینکر ہے جو حرف </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">م ”میم“ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(سبز) کی درمیانی صورت پر داخلے کے اینکر سے منسلک ہے۔ دونوں حروف کے ملنے سے بننے والی صورت بائیں طرف دکھائی گئی ہے۔ </span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens نے نستعلیق اردو جیسے ٹائپوگرافی کے لحاظ سے پیچیدہ اسکرپٹس کو سنبھالنے کے لیے </span><a href="https://fez.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fez</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (“Font Engineering made eaZy”) سسٹم بھی تخلیق کیا۔ فونٹ انجینئر Fez یا Python پروگرامنگ زبان کا استعمال کرتے ہوئے اسکرپٹ کے رویے کو بیان کرتا ہے، اور سسٹم ضروری اصولوں کا تعین کرتا ہے۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">مثال کے طور پر، Cozens نے حرف علت بڑی ے کیلئے درکار بہت سی مختلف حالتوں کو تلاش کرنے کیلئے Fez کا استعمال کیا کیونکہ یہ اردو الفاظ میں کثرت سے ظاہر ہوتا ہے۔ اگرچہ اردو دائیں سے بائیں لکھی جاتی ہے، بڑی ے پیچھے کی طرف (بائیں سے دائیں) اور پچھلے حروف کے نیچے لکھی جاتی ہے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">بڑی ے </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">کے بارے میں مزید معلومات کے لیے دیکھیں ”اتنے کم اردو فونٹس کیوں ہیں؟“</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">”میں نے ایک پلگ ان لکھا ہے جو دم کی لمبائی کی پیمائش کرتا ہے، ہر glyph کی چوڑائی کی پیمائش کرتا ہے، اور پھر مجموعوں کا ایک سیٹ تیار کرتا ہے،“ Cozens نے وضاحت کی۔ حرف کی ممکنہ مختلف ترتیبوں کا جائزہ لینے کا کام کمپیوٹر سے کروا کر، Cozens نے نستعلیق فونٹ کی انجینئرنگ سے متعلق پیچیدگی سے نپٹنے کیلئے ایک طریقہ تلاش کیا۔ </span></p><br /><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 400px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="بڑے سفید حرف کے گرد لکیروں پر چھوٹے حروف" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/BtDWM9XeOwQPJBAKMM1xNSCXTVovLU4ZX36Jjqk75TKEcrJR6d302U1JCRtteI2KHeJihJA-nWvnMmavUQAIJz12DK-7twS0oatzlT8khiRdu2Ss3oOM4imZ6WGWMuYRQ-gyc4z5thIx9hwuA6a_1YBAu9-LjGB6fdVmtcMvyTOTODKFQZbHTwD1ZW82_TuUs67qb9DbvvMhTBLP5wHN7FepqguwJShVpOvOfw=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">یہ آرٹ ورک حرف جیم کو دکھاتا ہے ج گلزار سے اور اردو میں حرف کے مختلف حصوں اور اس کے روایتی تناسب کو بیان کرنے کے لیے استعمال ہونے والی اصطلاحات اور ریاضی کا طریقہ۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اردو ٹائپوگرافی کے چند ہی انتخابات ہوا کرتے تھے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اب، مزید اردو فونٹس کے بطور حوالہ ماڈل اور نئے اوپن سورس ٹولز کے استعمال کے ساتھ، اردو ٹائپ ڈیزائن جمہوری اور متنوع ہو رہا ہے کیونکہ زیادہ سے زیادہ لوگ قارئین کی ضروریات کو پورا کرنے کے لیے اردو فونٹس بنا سکتے ہیں۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار اوپن سورس ہے اور اس کا ایک </span><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">GitHub پروجیکٹ </span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ہے جہاں لوگ فونٹ فائلز تلاش کر سکتے ہیں اور تعاون کرنے کے لیے مسائل اور تبصرے پوسٹ کر سکتے ہیں۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Cozens, Izadpanah اور Ross اپنے کام کو نہ صرف نستعلیق قسم کے ڈیزائن میں بلکہ اردو زبان کی اشاعت اور ثقافت میں بھی ایک شراکت کے طور پر دیکھتے ہیں۔ ”گلزار پروجیکٹ کا مقصد ٹائپ ڈیزائنرز کو مزید عربی ٹائپ فیسز بنانے کی ترغیب دینا ہے </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">جو عربی رسم الخط کو استعمال کرنے والی مختلف زبانوں کے لسانی تقاضوں اور طرز کی ترجیحات کو پورا کرتے ہیں۔</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">۔“ Izadpanah اور Ross نے کہا۔ </span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWSv3Y1IDfPWyeIA1i0nNQn0eLvTEZfwX6xlNT3v6biuevMYTRowSGhs1OlejvM0UBEH_3Dvw6D2VGudOuY01j9wEFyquH0N-a76d8e7j4fVQduSu0X8LTY_LucDpQsn4PT9dJgAmKVYS4QDiK3SrAz8wC3sZfipCAlPw9dTPUv9qzTzeMBhLLBFl/s2400/Gulzar_9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaWSv3Y1IDfPWyeIA1i0nNQn0eLvTEZfwX6xlNT3v6biuevMYTRowSGhs1OlejvM0UBEH_3Dvw6D2VGudOuY01j9wEFyquH0N-a76d8e7j4fVQduSu0X8LTY_LucDpQsn4PT9dJgAmKVYS4QDiK3SrAz8wC3sZfipCAlPw9dTPUv9qzTzeMBhLLBFl/s16000/Gulzar_9.png" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> گلزار بینر</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><br /></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts پر دستیاب ہے۔ </span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اس وقت گلزار عربی، فارسی اور اردو زبانوں کو مکمل سپورٹ کرتا ہے۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار اردو کا پہلا نستعلیق ٹائپ فیس ہے جس میں اصل لاطینی مماثل شامل ہے۔ لاطینی ٹائپ فیس، جس کو </span><a href="https://frenchtype.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Alice Savoie</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> نے ڈیزائن کیا، </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق اردو ڈیزائن کے ٹائپوگرافک رنگ سے مماثل ہے</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">۔ گلزار لاطینی حروف کے مجموعے میں اردو کو لاطینی میں نقل حرفی کرنے کے لیے ڈائیکرٹک نشانات کے ساتھ کافی حروف شامل ہیں۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">سوانح حیات: </span></p><br /><br /><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Simon Cozens</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> گلوسٹر، برطانیہ میں مقیم ایک فونٹ انجینئر ہیں۔ وہ پیچیدہ اسکرپٹس کے OpenType لے آؤٹ میں مہارت رکھتے ہیں اور </span><a href="http://corvelsoftware.co.uk/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1a73e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Corvel Software</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> چلاتے ہیں، جو ٹائپ ڈیزائنرز کو دنیا کی زبانوں کو سپورٹ کرنے کے قابل بناتا ہے۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.reading.ac.uk/typography/staff/dr-borna-izadpanah" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Borna Izadpanah</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> یونیورسٹی آف ریڈنگ، برطانیہ میں ٹائپوگرافی کے لیکچرر ہیں، جہاں انہوں نے پی ایچ ڈی، اور ٹائپ فیس ڈیزائن میں ایم اے کیا۔ ان کی ڈاکٹریٹ کی تحقیق نے فارسی زبان کی ابتدائی ٹائپوگرافک نمائندگی کی تاریخ کی کھوج کی۔ Izadpanah کو ان کی تحقیق اور ٹائپ فیس ڈیزائن کے لیے متعدد باوقار ایوارڈز ملے ہیں، جن میں </span><a href="https://www.granshan.com/competition-2015-%E2%80%93-winners" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Granshan ٹائپ ڈیزائن مقابلہ</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> میں گرینڈ پرائز اور عربی ٹیکسٹ ٹائپ فیس کے لیے پہلا انعام بھی شامل ہے، ایک </span><a href="https://www.tdc.org/work/lalezar/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ٹائپوگرافک ایکسیلنس کا TDC سرٹیفکیٹ</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">، اور </span><a href="https://symposia-iranica.com/prizes" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Art History</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> میں بہترین پیپر کے لیے Symposia Iranica پرائز۔</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="background-color: white; font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><br /></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="http://reading.ac.uk/typography/about/Staff_list/f-g-e-ross.aspx" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dr. Fiona Ross</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> بنیادی طور پر عربی، جنوبی ایشیائی اور تھائی رسم الخط کیلئے ٹائپ ڈیزائن اور ٹائپوگرافی میں مہارت رکھتی ہیں، وہ زبانوں کا پس منظر رکھتی ہیں اور </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">اسکول آف اورینٹل اینڈ افریقن اسٹڈیز (</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SOAS) سے ہندوستانی پیالوگرافی میں پی ایچ ڈی ہیں، جہاں انہوں نے </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">پالی کے ساتھ سنسکرت کی تعلیم حاصل کی۔ </span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ٹائپ ڈائریکٹر کا کلب میڈل (2018)</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> حاصل کیا۔ وہ </span><a href="http://women-in-type.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">وومن ان ٹائپ</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> تحقیقی پروجیکٹ</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> کی قیادت کرتی ہیں۔</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">وسائل:</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2023/03/Urdu fonts-Urdu.html " target="_blank"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt;">اتنے کم ڈیجیٹل نستعلیق اردو فونٹس کیوں ہیں؟</span> </a></span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://gulzarfont.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار ویب سائٹ </span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(گلزار کے پیچھے طریقہ کار اور ٹیکنالوجی کے بارے میں مزید معلومات)</span></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">گلزار GitHub ڈائریکٹری</span></a></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://fez.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fez پروگرام</span></a></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://github.com/googlefonts/Gulzar/blob/main/engineering.md#glyph-connections" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">نستعلیق کنکشن ایڈیٹر</span></a></p><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><a href="https://github.com/simoncozens/nastaliq-engineering/blob/master/GB2208556A.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">لائنوٹائپ پیٹنٹ برائے قلمی اور شیراز فونٹس</span></a><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (</span><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1989 میں Fellows, Holloway اور Ross)</span></p><br /><p dir="rtl" style="font-size: large; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: right;"><span face=""Google Sans", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p class="p1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Google Fonts Team <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">کے</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">ذریعہ</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">شائع</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">کیا</span> <span class="s1" style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal;">گیا۔</span></span></p></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-22948001724582712282022-11-18T00:47:00.003-08:002023-03-03T00:36:17.752-08:00Your Privacy and Google Fonts<span style="color: #999999;">Last modified: March 2, 2023</span><br /><br />In light of the recent events and media coverage about Google Fonts, we find it necessary to issue the following statement:<br /><br />Google Fonts is a library of open source font families, as well as a Web API that can be used to embed these font families on websites. People want the websites they visit to be well designed, easy to use, and respectful of their privacy. Google respects the privacy of individuals. The Google Fonts Web API is designed to limit the collection, storage, and use of data, and Google in particular does not use it for creating profiles of end users or for advertising. Such data is kept secure and separate from other data. Moreover, the fact that Google’s servers necessarily receive IP addresses to transmit fonts is not unique to Google and is consistent with how the Internet works.<br /><br />For more information on privacy and data collection on the Google Fonts Web API, see our <a href="https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq/privacy">Privacy FAQs</a>.<br />Jimmy Mooney, Senior Product Manager, Google Fontshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16845125070975504841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-28891692531058957842022-08-04T09:45:00.013-07:002022-09-21T12:02:28.256-07:00The handwriting fonts that help Australian students learn how to read and write are now available in Google Workspace<span id="docs-internal-guid-b944322a-7fff-aaf5-139a-2a47b56e23fb"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Foundation fonts for Australian schools, 4 styles, 5 fonts" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/1hV2xqiTK03OeicsfIf2TbmROj-khiLzPwwqEODO0NAouhRi0ibHf2IuACLKIIJsySjkzkd_tBTMHAFVE74M2fFHZ1DQEKUPLycM7s5TkwXs1cedZ8en5wRwy1jGQwc4uY_Cp-XA0Ou8NzLfkwd8aFogZnaSezMZlj5W8kBoW72VWlF7A_WhFiHJXkJJTyU=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e43c7e96-7fff-7fb8-e165-0c1968828fb5"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><a href="http://edu.google.com.au/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google for Education Australia</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> partnered to make Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools available on </span><a href="https://workspace.google.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Workspace</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, including </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Workspace for Education. The fonts are also available</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for download from the Google Fonts website. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Australian teachers are required to use state-mandated handwriting styles to teach reading and writing to school children from ages four to nine. Designed by Tina and Corey Anderson, the five Foundation Fonts exemplify proper handwriting for English and other languages using the Latin writing system, and include </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">common math symbols</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The regular weight of each font imitates the pencil thickness of handwriting, making the fonts easy for students to recognize as they learn how to write letter shapes.</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The availability of these fonts on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides is also important for the adoption of Chromebooks and Google Workspace for Education in Australian schools. </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Using the state-prescribed fonts in Google Workspace makes it easier for students and teachers to collaborate and create documents and projects using </span><a href="https://edu.google.com/intl/ALL_au/chromebooks/overview/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chromebooks</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Google Workspace for Education. We are thrilled to improve our platforms to align with Australian education standards," explained Kimberley Hall, Australian Teaching and Learning Lead, Google for Education.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google for Education Australia received many requests for these fonts to be added to Google’s products and since their release, teachers have expressed their excitement that the fonts are finally available. </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Having the Foundation Fonts available on Google Workspace and Google Fonts is important to Early Stage 1 (Kindergarten, ages 4-5), Stage 1 (Years 1-2, aged 5-7) and Stage 2 (Years 3-4, ages 7-9) teachers. These fonts are required in our English syllabus. To expose students to the correct ways to write, we use these fonts in worksheets, wall displays, posters, and other written materials. I did professional development with an occupational therapist who stated that exposure to Foundation Fonts in the early years is essential for children to recognize letter shapes so they can read and write,” explained Alfina Jackson, a teacher in New South Wales. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Foundation Fonts are in the </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/open_type" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">OpenType</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #24292f; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/variable_fonts" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">variable font</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #24292f; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> format and are available in weights ranging from 400 to 700</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">To use these fonts in Workspace products, select “More” in the Fonts menu and type the name of the font, or “Edu” in the search bar. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQn0MkgM0qjswUqLTQPK7a0OKSMGfJ3OOG9lb6GbeERzsLiHYzUENqZjaC8keLIMjIHxUP9xASpGC4WNEkDh9u4D24RtARLE_Rhsv4AKqDj-AQvCG8ywfJSKZV1r6_lpfwBEWovnSowru79WDCBRmrlmY8cYLG-sAKuBP7wF4S0Fzk6Itq2WfeO3MQ/s3168/Foundation_fonts_new.gif" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Cursor selecting "hello world" text, selecting More in fonts menu, typing Edu in search" border="0" data-original-height="1720" data-original-width="3168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQn0MkgM0qjswUqLTQPK7a0OKSMGfJ3OOG9lb6GbeERzsLiHYzUENqZjaC8keLIMjIHxUP9xASpGC4WNEkDh9u4D24RtARLE_Rhsv4AKqDj-AQvCG8ywfJSKZV1r6_lpfwBEWovnSowru79WDCBRmrlmY8cYLG-sAKuBP7wF4S0Fzk6Itq2WfeO3MQ/s16000/Foundation_fonts_new.gif" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2b00fe; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Select the “More” menu to find the Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools.</span></p><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">
<span style="color: #222222;">To download the fonts from Google Fonts, visit: </span></span><p></p><div><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9fee420d-7fff-0657-5946-a33aad72596f"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Edu+VIC+WA+NT+Beginner" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edu VIC WA NT Beginner</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Victoria, Western Australia and the Northern Territory</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Edu+NSW+ACT+Foundation" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edu NSW ACT Foundation</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Edu+SA+Beginner" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edu SA Beginner</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">South Australia</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Edu+TAS+Beginner" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edu TAS Beginner</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Tasmania</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Edu+QLD+Beginner" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Edu QLD Beginner</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> for Queensland </span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information, visit the </span><a href="https://github.com/MezMerrit/AU-School-Handwriting-Fonts" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AU School Handwriting GitHub page</span></a><span style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 2.13333; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">To see how these fonts are used to teach children to write, visit the New South Wales Department of Education’s </span><a href="https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/en/home/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/literacy-and-numeracy/teaching-and-learning-resources/effective-reading/phonics/Handwriting-a-guide-for-parents.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Handwriting guide for parents</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"> </p><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Posted by </span><span data-rich-links="{"per_n":"Susanna Zaraysky","per_e":"susanna.zaraysky@gmail.com","type":"person"}" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Susanna Zaraysky</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></span></span></div></span></div><div><span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-77059758983228907422022-07-06T16:37:00.003-07:002022-07-08T20:46:24.368-07:00Partnering to change how the world reads: Expanding Lexend to different weights<span id="docs-internal-guid-301fd30b-7fff-b7b3-2f6f-d40386ae83d1"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Lexend has 9 styles and is a variable font. Lowercase and uppercase letters i, j, o, and q" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/tv1-dKfGpKNQ-LB0nHpJdrte7VgQvNqRN_U6XExRhrBUvxW1amhetoojuoEaZFzvKqCC7iGyMJb6YIolnavnx33Ttcv7nfqPvZpFIyqHj4-YbSTDlzMQlfV_kV7aiXPS-aWQz9kly-CqaU_U77T-ePQ=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-a3d75b99-7fff-4e89-5124-0fc862be8c62"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2022/07/lexend-deutsch.html">Deutsche Version</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts partnered with </span><a href="https://www.cosmosdirekt.de/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a German insurance company, to expand </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lexend?query=lexend" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, a </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/typeface" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">typeface</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> designed by Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup for readers with dyslexia and other reading challenges. </span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Philipp Muhlebach, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Executive Creative Director</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> of </span><a href="https://www.superunion.de/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Superunion</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Germany, learned about Lexend, he made it the default font in his browser. The new typeface promised to help struggling readers with various spacing options that improved readability. He noticed that Lexend </span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">did</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> help him read more quickly and fluently than other fonts. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(</span><a href="https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/ila-reading-fluently-does-not-mean-reading-fast.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Reading </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fluency</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> consists of three components: accuracy, speed, and expression.) </span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“I was impressed with Lexend’s mission. It improves reading performance by enhancing the legibility of the words </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with distinctive letters and numbers. It also </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">combats the challenges faced by millions of people with dyslexia,” said </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mühlebach.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When CosmosDirekt</span><span style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hired Superunion, for a rebranding project, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mühlebach</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> suggested CosmosDirekt use Lexend to reflect the company’s new modern look. He found that the typeface could aptly work for the various types of text the insurance company used: bold and confident banners and display text,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and more subtle and serious content</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. “As </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend was available through Google Fonts, we knew that it could generate the best performance across multiple digital devices,” said Mühlebach.</span></span></div></span><span><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9cf37a0e-7fff-4d1e-2af6-abb07ada4099"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 404px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Mobile screen with images of a car and home, prices in Euros for car and home insurance" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CTlkh4nfjZWcZ88bLguqb--2fPw5NrVJn97NKeiW5qa1_MJjbd5GgTGDFnD02DwRNDLtIlyq6ETCPI5xxMsTIWUduCML0wJ7unICRi_3QJHNLmKJ8Ll-pz2zJK84TwKFDamMtQ7qHVUR4t_Mr00JlwZ2=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ad549a7d-7fff-bd63-c730-7958ea91c322"><span style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-ee67a2a7-7fff-1c6e-96a3-6bcdbc1763aa"><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CosmosDirekt mobile applications for car and home insurance</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-94f0c5b2-7fff-991a-7e26-f18c36e4b19d"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt wanted to make it easier for customers with reading difficulties to read and understand their materials. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“We loved the font and the story behind it all. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Insurance language is hard enough to understand. We’re trying to make it all as simple and accessible as possible,” said </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeromy Lohmann, Head of Marketing and Sales at CosmosDirekt</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">However, there was a problem. Lexend was only available as a single </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/weight" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">weight</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, Regular 400. CosmosDirekt needed more font weights for its documents, websites, and marketing materials. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt partnered with Google Fonts to commission Font Bureau</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Superunion</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to expand Lexend from one to nine weights for the insurer to use in its products and for Google Fonts to offer for anyone to use without charge.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The new weights (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thin, Extra Light, Light, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, and Black) </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">were published on Google Fonts in April 2021.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Since January 2022, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt has been using Lexend online in their website, app, forms, and advertising. The company is going to roll out Lexend in all future communication materials. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Overall our customers are extremely impressed with our new rebranding,” said Lohmann. </span></span></p><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Desktop page with an man in cap taking a picture with his phone while a dog licks his face" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/PQjhdnC4m84NbyPOqQE8OEcwIc2nCEbM8ozGqw8vvsuYGv1wWl24sNmslJRciGUoupcur6tREXDXsTcqowwbrL4vNcixahb8RRFgxyoLeJ3V4U8ylgG3xfkgnocWo8VRrPy2iZYjqK5ye6Dg19-QqtE=s16000" style="color: #222222; font-family: Lexend, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" /><span style="color: #2b00fe;"> <span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt desktop homepage page for animal insurance</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c616c157-7fff-38e1-3603-e0faaeeda656"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For CosmosDirekt, increasing the amount of Lexend offerings wasn’t just about the company’s new look, it was also about social responsibility. “We quickly understood the added value we could offer many people who are faced with reading issues. What is better than using design to improve the lives of many?” stated Lohmann. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shaver-Troup sees the Lexend extension as a business model for solving major problems: “</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What this exceptional collaboration has done to eradicate reading issues will resonate far into the future. Reading problems are often described as a global crisis. However, we need to think about how reading impacts people on an individual level. Having Lexend available in nine font weights gives many individuals the choices they need to find the right font for them.” </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend fonts are available on </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=lexend" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in Google Docs and in Google Workspace. Watch </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDaMoUlkh8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">this video</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to see how to add Lexend in Google Docs. To learn more about the creation of Lexend, visit </span><a href="https://design.google/library/lexend-readability/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Clean and clear: making reading easier with Lexend</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></div></span><span><div><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Posted by Susanna Zaraysky, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></span></div></span></div></span></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-83945958666623321672022-07-06T16:35:00.004-07:002022-07-08T11:26:28.770-07:00Eine Partnerschaft mit dem Ziel, das Leseerlebnis weltweit zu verändern: Erweiterung von Lexend um verschiedene Schriftstärken<span id="docs-internal-guid-3a6081ab-7fff-8473-98e3-19b6b7a1bc5a"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Lexend hat 9 verschiedene Stile und ist eine variable Schriftart. Hier zu sehen: Die Klein- und Großbuchstaben i, j, o und q." src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/1NLOypYhO8Pfzswdsvg324WXoAdJ44KJf9ecLFx0q80tl-W-EhzAbG1hKZKdGymu19AUV62lp29EIrNDiYQeaL2GUsyEJwMBi83XaVWcQLQoIkqNRcBBHkmsUF_oLJ-jHREDIvcatZPjmuXPCw=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-78507c3c-7fff-11f7-f259-f78cb7789c3d"><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2022/07/lexend.html" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2022/07/lexend.html" target="_blank">English version</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts arbeitet mit </span><a href="https://www.cosmosdirekt.de/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, einer deutschen Versicherungsgesellschaft zusammen, um </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lexend?query=lexend" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, eine </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/typeface" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schriftart</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, die von Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup für Leser mit Dyslexie und anderen Leseschwächen entwickelt wurde, weiter auszubauen. </span></div><br /><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Als Philipp Mühlebach, </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Executive Creative Director</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bei </span><a href="https://www.superunion.de/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Superunion</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> in Deutschland, von Lexend erfuhr, legte er sie als standard Schriftart in seinem Browser fest. Die neue Schriftart versprach Nutzern mit eingeschränkten Lesefähigkeiten mithilfe von verschiedenen Abstandsoptionen eine bessere Lesbarkeit. Mühlebach stellte fest, dass Lexend ihm </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">tatsächlich</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> dabei half, schneller und flüssiger zu lesen als mit anderen Schriftarten. </span><a href="https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/ila-reading-fluently-does-not-mean-reading-fast.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Leseflüssigkeit</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> setzt sich aus drei Komponenten zusammen: Genauigkeit, Geschwindigkeit und Ausdruck. </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">„Ich war von dem Anliegen von Lexend beeindruckt. Die Schriftart verbessert die Leseleistung, indem die Lesbarkeit der Wörter </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">durch deutlich zu erkennende Buchstaben und Zahlen erhöht wird. Das Unternehmen kämpft auch </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">gegen die Herausforderungen, denen sich Millionen von Menschen mit Dyslexie stellen müssen“, so </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mühlebach.</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Als CosmosDirekt</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Superunion für ein Rebrandingprojekt engagierte, schlug </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Mühlebach</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> CosmosDirekt vor, Lexend zu nutzen, um das neue moderne Design des Unternehmens widerzuspiegeln. Er stellte fest, dass die Schriftart gut für die verschiedenen Textarten geeignet wäre, die bei der Versicherungsgesellschaft verwendet werden: Banner und Displaytexte, die fett gedruckt sind und Vertrauen ausstrahlen,</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> sowie dezentere und ernstere Inhalte</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. „Als </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend über Google Fonts verfügbar war, wussten wir, dass diese Schriftart auf verschiedenen digitalen Geräten die beste Leistung generieren könnte“, sagte Mühlebach.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2aef32e9-7fff-f3b9-79e8-cc68538c5a4a"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 404px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Display eines Mobilgeräts mit Bildern eines Autos und eines Hauses, Preise in Euro für Auto- und Wohngebäudeversicherungen" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/CTlkh4nfjZWcZ88bLguqb--2fPw5NrVJn97NKeiW5qa1_MJjbd5GgTGDFnD02DwRNDLtIlyq6ETCPI5xxMsTIWUduCML0wJ7unICRi_3QJHNLmKJ8Ll-pz2zJK84TwKFDamMtQ7qHVUR4t_Mr00JlwZ2=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span></div><p style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9915b877-7fff-7e48-96b7-f6ac9038385f"><span style="color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-35fab08f-7fff-b367-5fec-a8e2bcda8ce4"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mobile Anwendungen von CosmosDirekt für Auto- und Wohngebäudeversicherungen</span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-dbf87d79-7fff-72c9-2903-f71ef24ad9d3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt wollte es Kunden mit Leseschwächen einfacher machen, ihre Informationen zu lesen und zu verstehen. </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">„Uns hat die Schriftart und auch die Geschichte dahinter sehr gut gefallen. </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Versicherungssprache ist so schon schwer genug verständlich. Wir versuchen daher, alle Informationen so einfach und barrierefrei wie möglich zu gestalten“, sagte </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jeromy Lohmann, Head of Marketing and Sales bei CosmosDirekt</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Es gab jedoch ein Problem. Lexend war nur mit einer </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/weight" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Schriftstärke</span></a><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, nämlich „Regular 400“, verfügbar. CosmosDirekt brauchte jedoch mehr Schriftstärken für seine Dokumente, Websites und Marketingmaterialien. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CosmosDirekt hat daher zusammen mit Google Fonts die Unternehmen Font Bureau</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> und Superunion damit beauftragt,</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lexend von einer auf neun Schriftstärken zu erweitern, sodass die Versicherungsgesellschaft diese in ihren Produkten nutzen und Google Fonts sie für alle Nutzer kostenlos anbieten kann.</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Die neuen Schriftstärken (</span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thin, Extra Light, Light, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold und Black) </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">wurden im April 2021 bei Google Fonts veröffentlicht.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Seit Januar 2022 </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">verwendet CosmosDirekt Lexend online auf der Website, in der App, in Formularen und in Werbung für das Unternehmen. Die Versicherungsgesellschaft möchte Lexend zukünftig in all ihren Kommunikationsmaterialien nutzen. </span><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">„Insgesamt waren unsere Kunden äußerst beeindruckt von unserem neuen Rebranding“, sagte Lohmann. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5e1a6f9e-7fff-c760-10ca-e7c913a336f1"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 404px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Seite auf einem Computer mit einem Mann mit einer Mütze, der ein Foto mit seinem Smartphone macht, während ein Hund sein Gesicht ableckt" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2oYmLi8CxJlV81K_0BADTMsDNjfZRaEaogomcLjOpHndOtdpHRSobfRgKc8rB-3HUBs8KmgKkjknXPluKkF_PpWNyGKqwNuwMX5nQ4usNJvomd0AZ0jCjbOWq23_05vyXI6KcF9qBRS3bYuv_A=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">CosmosDirekt-Startseite auf einem Computer für eine Haustierversicherung</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="Lexend, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Für CosmosDirekt ging es bei der Erweiterung der Anzahl an Lexend-Angeboten nicht nur um das neue Erscheinungsbild des Unternehmens, sondern auch um soziale Verantwortung. „Wir haben schnell den Mehrwert erkannt, den wir vielen Menschen mit Leseproblemen bieten können. Was ist besser, als mithilfe von Design das Leben vieler Menschen zu verbessern?“, sagte Lohmann. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Shaver-Troup sieht die Lexend-Erweiterung als Geschäftsmodell, das große Probleme löst: „</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Was diese außergewöhnliche Zusammenarbeit geschaffen hat, um Leseprobleme zu beseitigen, wird noch in Zukunft nachhallen. Leseprobleme werden oft als globale Krise beschrieben. Wir müssen uns jedoch darüber Gedanken machen, wie Lesen sich auf den einzelnen Menschen auswirkt. Dadurch, dass Lexend in neun Schriftstärken verfügbar ist, können Nutzer nun genau die Schrift finden, die zu ihren Bedürfnissen passt.“ </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Lexend-Schriftarten sind bei </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=lexend" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Google Fonts</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, in Google Docs und in Google Workspace verfügbar. In </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnDaMoUlkh8" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">diesem Video</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #424242; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> erfährst du, wie du Lexend in Google Docs hinzufügst. Weitere Informationen zur Erstellung von Lexend findest du unter </span><a href="https://design.google/library/lexend-readability/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Clean and clear: making reading easier with Lexend</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14.6667px;">Veröffentlicht von Susanna Zaraysky, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></span></p></span></div></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-58610484699264606212022-06-22T18:13:00.000-07:002022-06-22T18:13:24.586-07:00Emmy award for web fonts: faster online streaming <br /><br /><img alt="6 men in suits on red carpet, Blue Emmy awards background" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/6RX2FgReCLz3weRFwILt-wnfMpXRB3q7aWKB-m--GyU2fj2NVFUu-vN1sjP728OHqy1mtorai2cb0g_bYNh3HVa04y6HG9WGfFRRtW6YqSCk7LijfI41k8NK71tfS8a2GpTUqJX-IkkK2PZnxFALKYqeMZ5EA1eDmYa_3LliaksrvAoUvM_0QbX5ZyFcjg=s16000" /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">From left to right: Googlers Roderick Sheeter, Garret Rieger, David Kuettel, Tobias Kunisch, Jimmy Mooney, Raph Levien at the Emmy® awards </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Photo credit: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS)</span></div><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;">Perhaps you watch the yearly Emmy® awards to see if your favorite television shows and actors will win. <span style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(The </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emmy® awards are for television shows in the United States.) </span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><br />Did you know that software engineers and font teams also win Emmys®? <br /><br /><br /><br />Google Fonts is part of the <a href="https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/webfonts">The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Web Fonts Working Group</a> that won an Emmy this year for Standardization of Font Technology for Custom Downloadable Fonts and Typography for Web and TV Devices at the <a href="https://theemmys.tv/tech-73rd-award-recipients/">Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards</a>. The award ceremony took place at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas on April 25, 2022.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The award was for the Web Open Font Format 2 (WOFF2) that became a <a href="https://www.w3.org/2018/02/media-advisory-woff2-rec.html.en">standard in 2018</a>. WOFF2 is installed on all major web browsers and powers a vast majority of sites. Google Fonts collaborated on creating both WOFF 2 and its predecessor, WOFF. The team created and maintains the WOFF2 encoder and decoder that convert a font to WOFF2 and from WOFF2 back to a font. The encoder and decoder are used in most browsers.<br /><br /> <br /><br /><img alt="Two men in tuxedos, one man holding Emmy statue" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/HCR9INkugoBfsMa3jjYaxyukA_2BkiRKuDHmiYeQYTQG4dolLWsMtgIFWhwz_98mBSoMzEZUu4kjsmjPUvAN0EJvwNyTxKjzBAeuHVAH9GuTu8NEYUt5vdbcaCV9uHv7BLjd6OtSlNCt8ukhBmERsPX_RUsBsJ4U_eGPR1enUvlSHFFIk8Hof1oUC9KXpA=s16000" /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Google Software Engineers Jyrki Alakuijala and David Kuettel (left to right), </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Photo credit: NATAS</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;">What are <a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/web_font">web fonts</a>? How do they impact your online entertainment streaming?</p><br /><br /><br /><br />Web fonts enable people to use fonts on demand without requiring installation in their operating systems. They make it easier for your movie or television series to load faster and they take up less Internet bandwidth. WOFF2 fonts are smaller and load faster than previous formats, such as TrueType Font (TTF) and Embedded OpenType File Format (EOT).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Before the invention of web fonts such as WOFF2, some fonts were embedded in images and would slow down the time it took for the pages to load. When text is embedded in images, such as in film or television posters, and not included as <a href="https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#writing">alt text</a> or in adjacent text near the poster, it can cause accessibility issues for <a href="https://material.io/design/usability/accessibility.html#assistive-technology">screen reader</a> users because screen reader programs usually can’t read embedded text in images. With WOFF2, it’s more convenient for website designers to use fonts to display text. As a result, screen reader users can hear the text read to them.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img alt="Man holding Emmy statue with National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences backdrop" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/a5OWH03NoWU7ZwbulhBIOwtXi8szMFgxKVtrApd36Tz_hJgw5aMWnx5lxRqtVD61O41MtrDrnTyZ3-JJ_AQNbf1U03-fQ7tr2lw_Uudw61jGry7WM0aUBkQQDNBam-Y-8aS6Wjutnu5iWydI2a2NKT6kojQefXJvyignwq9eWV1JMui4vIbdKjIwsw9C5A=s16000" /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Garret Rieger, Google Fonts Software Engineer and Co-chair of the Web Fonts Working Group, Photo credit: NATAS</span></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><p style="text-align: left;">“Prior to the WOFF, if online media streaming services wanted to use web fonts, they would have to provide the web fonts in several different formats, depending on the browser. Since all major browsers support WOFF2, online streaming services only need the font in the WOFF2 format. Google Chrome was the first browser to support WOFF2,” explained Garret Rieger, Google Fonts Software Engineer and Co-chair of the Web Fonts Working Group.</p><br /><br /><br /><br />The Web Fonts Working Group is currently collaborating on a <a href="https://w3c.github.io/IFT/Overview.html">standard for incremental font transfer</a> to speed up font loading. With this technology, clients, such as a streaming company, will load only the portions of the font they actually need.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Susanna Zaraysky, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-27424981862548635362022-04-26T11:15:00.009-07:002022-05-26T13:35:58.005-07:00You can now use Radio-Canada’s brand typeface: The award-winning variable font comes to Google Fonts<span id="docs-internal-guid-d4e4575b-7fff-0b92-4a76-e72dcd268e4f"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="Radio Canada character set, 2 variable axes, 317 languages supported" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ngWaQj7v9DXpZ5Gof2u9U664T2h5losj4DzqSBF51cp_E-pZjLS9KiK9GNXax5iJFp-_HJbhhdD7GqwEFCs8T_PbvagvN3qnTs2YNq7F5crGEx4Gl7Ad-mhHXU7Q5iCTbSGoVCPSIi-hcqOGo3xjT3w=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e4c80a3f-7fff-6944-54ff-4cd562c1b1bc"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2022/04/radio-canada-fr.html" target="_blank"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Version fran</span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ç</span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: red; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">aise</span></a></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-bda11a53-7fff-48e6-756c-369cc07f9c18"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A typeface made to </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">give a specific identity and distinction</span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ec421db5-7fff-91f6-8c1b-25098159cad4"><a href="https://cbc.radio-canada.ca" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)</span><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and Radio-Canada</span></a></span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s</span></span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> public broadcasting platforms is now available on Google Fonts in many languages using the Latin writing system, including many indigenous languages spoken in Canada. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CBC/Radio-Canada is </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Canada's national public broadcaster. Its mandate is to inform, enlighten, entertain, and strengthen Canadian culture and diversity on radio, television, and digital platforms. </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of this mandate, </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CBC/Radio-Canada is proud to release its original typeface publicly and make it available through Google Fonts.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Radio-Canada typeface was created in 2017 by Montreal-based designer and typographer </span><a href="https://www.charlesdaoud.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charles Daoud</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, in collaboration with </span><a href="https://coppersandbrasses.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coppers and Brasses</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://asaumierdemers.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexandre Saumier Demers</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/humanist_old_style" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">humanist</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> style stands out with distinctive angles and subtle curves. In compliance with digital accessibility standards, the font’s x-height is intended to increase legibility, making it very effective when used in continuous text.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2018, the Radio-Canada typeface won three awards, in the Font Design category at </span><a href="https://www.commarts.com/project/25747/radio-canada-typeface" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communication Arts Typography</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners/design/radio-canada-typeface-w320/?year=2018" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applied Arts Design Annual</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and at Grand Prix Grafika.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Several optimizations were made in 2021 thanks to </span><a href="https://twitter.com/eliheuer" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eli Heuer</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">’s contributions. He expanded the static font into a variable font and increased the character set </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(490 to 679) and the </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">number of supported Latin languages (106 to 317). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2022, </span><a href="https://www.baronvonfonthausen.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacques Le Bailly</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Baron von Fonthausen), with the expertise of Aaron Bell, expanded the font to include support of indigenous languages used in Canada, such as Sechelt, </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Algonquin, Ojibway, Carrier, and Chipewyan (more languages to be released).</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-95a267db-7fff-b763-75cc-cd6766862efc"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Radio+Canada?query=radio+canada" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Radio-Canada typeface</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> is offered in </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">two </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/style" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">styles</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">(Roman and </span></span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/italic" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Italic</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">)</span>,</span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">in</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> two widths (</span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/regular_upright" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Regular</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/condensed_narrow_compressed" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Condensed</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) and five weights (Light to </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/bold" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bold</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">); and as a </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/topics/variable_fonts" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">variable font</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div></span></div><div><span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; color: #666666; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;">Posted by Susanna Zaraysky, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></span></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-75549993764004084882022-04-26T11:15:00.008-07:002022-05-26T13:34:46.160-07:00Voici Radio-Canada, la police de caractères du diffuseur public canadien, plusieurs fois primée et maintenant disponible sur Google Fonts<span id="docs-internal-guid-e961b1bf-7fff-b639-3063-cbcebca8ece3"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><img alt="caractères typographiques de la police Radio-Canada, supportant deux axes variables et 317 langues." src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/ngWaQj7v9DXpZ5Gof2u9U664T2h5losj4DzqSBF51cp_E-pZjLS9KiK9GNXax5iJFp-_HJbhhdD7GqwEFCs8T_PbvagvN3qnTs2YNq7F5crGEx4Gl7Ad-mhHXU7Q5iCTbSGoVCPSIi-hcqOGo3xjT3w=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></span><div><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #6aa84f; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2022/04/radio-canada-en.html" target="_blank">English version</a> </span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c5fc59d-7fff-0bdd-e698-8700fcf59865"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Une police de caractères créée pour renforcer l’identité distinctive de <span id="docs-internal-guid-9c05028c-7fff-1c9a-0dca-01e5819dd1eb"><a href="https://ici.radio-canada.ca/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">CBC/Radio-Canada</span></a></span> </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">sur toutes les plateformes du diffuseur public est maintenant disponible sur Google Fonts dans plusieurs langues (dont les langues autochtones parlées au Canada) utilisant les caractères latins.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">CBC/Radio-Canada </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">est le diffuseur public du Canada. Son mandat est de renseigner, d'éclairer et de divertir, afin de renforcer la culture et la diversité canadienne à la radio, la télé et sur les plateformes numériques. </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">À titre de diffuseur public, CBC/Radio-Canada est fier d’offrir publiquement sa police de caractères par le biais des polices de caractères Google.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">De style humaniste, elle se démarque par ses angles et ses empattements distinctifs. Sa hauteur d’x assure une excellente lisibilité conformément aux normes d’accessibilité numérique, ce qui la rend très performante lorsqu’utilisée en texte continu.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La police Radio-Canada a été créée en 2017 par le designer et typographe montréalais </span><a href="https://www.charlesdaoud.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Charles Daoud</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, en collaboration avec </span><a href="https://coppersandbrasses.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Coppers and Brasses</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> et </span><a href="https://asaumierdemers.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alexandre Saumier Demers</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Elle a été conçue spécifiquement pour CBC/Radio-Canada afin de répondre à ses besoins de diffusion de contenus, tant sur le numérique qu'à la télévision ou qu'en imprimé. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En 2018, la police Radio-Canada a raflé trois distinctions, dans la catégorie Design de police de caractères aux </span><a href="https://www.commarts.com/project/25747/radio-canada-typeface" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Communication Arts Typography</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><a href="https://www.appliedartsmag.com/winners/design/radio-canada-typeface-w320/?year=2018" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Applied Arts Design Annual</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #202124; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> et Grand Prix Grafika.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plusieurs optimisations ont vu le jour en 2021 grâce à la collaboration d’</span><a href="https://twitter.com/eliheuer" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eli Heuer</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Il a développé la fonction variable de la police de caractères basée sur les deux familles statiques, augmentant au passage les glyphes originaux (de 490 à 679) et les langues latines (de 106 à 317). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">En 2022, </span><a href="https://www.baronvonfonthausen.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jacques Le Bailly</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Baron von Fonthausen), avec l’expertise d’Aaron Bell, a optimisé la police afin de supporter les langues autochtones du Canada (dont Sechelt, Algonquin, Ojibwé, Carrier, Chipewyan et d’autres langues ajoutées en continu).</span></p><div style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Radio+Canada?query=radio+canada" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">La police Radio-Canada</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> est offerte en</span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deux </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/style" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">styles</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Romain et </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/italic" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Italique</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">),</span></span><span style="font-family: "Radio Canada", sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">deux largeurs (</span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/regular_upright" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regulier</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> et </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/condensed_narrow_compressed" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Condensé</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">), et cinq graisses (Léger à </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/bold" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Gras</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">) ainsi qu’en </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/topics/variable_fonts" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fonte variable</span></a><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.356; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Publié par </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Susanna Zaraysky, Google Fonts Content Strategist </span></span></p><div><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span><span face=""Radio Canada", sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 312px; overflow: hidden; width: 624px;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="messages"><span class="toast">QUOTA_BYTES quota exceeded</span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-90255667230562831732022-04-01T17:04:00.006-07:002022-11-03T15:38:59.455-07:00Morisawa BIZ Universal Design (UD) Japanese fonts added to Google Fonts and Google Workspace<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UqyzRckVe1M/YkeSdDZe2JI/AAAAAAAAYGA/yVIaFWyNTwcddYbkWmRXk-AhfS5mldYLgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1950/Morisawa%2BBIZ%2BUniversal%2BDesign%2B%2528UD%2529%2Bfonts%2Badded%2Bto%2BGoogle%2BFonts%252C%2BGoogle%2BWorkspace.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="1950" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UqyzRckVe1M/YkeSdDZe2JI/AAAAAAAAYGA/yVIaFWyNTwcddYbkWmRXk-AhfS5mldYLgCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h402/Morisawa%2BBIZ%2BUniversal%2BDesign%2B%2528UD%2529%2Bfonts%2Badded%2Bto%2BGoogle%2BFonts%252C%2BGoogle%2BWorkspace.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-6ef3c5df-7fff-8f08-8eab-39cb94a562ac"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our larger effort to make great type accessible in more languages, Google Fonts is pleased to announce that the Japanese type foundry </span><a href="https://en.morisawa.co.jp/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Morisawa</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> has made 2 </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=morisawa&subset=japanese" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BIZ Universal Design (UD) font families</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> available on Google Fonts, under the </span><a href="http://scripts.sil.org/OFL" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">SIL Open Font License</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. These Gothic and Mincho designs, available in regular and bold weights and proportional and full width styles, are now also available in </span><a href="https://workspace.google.com/features/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Workspace</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Having these fonts available in Japan allows Google Education to align with the most widely used fonts in education publishing in Japan,” said Stuart Miller, </span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Head of Marketing for Google Education in Asia Pacific (APAC).</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> “This makes it easier for partners to collaborate with Google Education. It also ensures a more consistent, inclusive, delightful experience for the millions of teachers and students that use Google tools.”</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawing on extensive end-user evaluation, the BIZ UD typefaces were developed using the </span><a href="https://universaldesign.ie/what-is-universal-design/the-7-principles/the-7-principles.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">principles of universal design</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (UD) to ensure </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/legibility_readability" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">legibility</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the ease of differentiating individual characters) and </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/legibility_readability" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">readability</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (the ease of reading text overall). BIZ UD fonts are especially suited for conveying text accurately—for example, in educational settings, corporate communication environments, and other places that use </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_and_communications_technology" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ICT</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Earlier versions of these fonts are available as part of the Windows 10 Japanese Supplemental Fonts package. Morisawa and Google collaborated with </span><a href="https://www.typenetwork.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Type Network</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to update the fonts to the latest Google Fonts technical specifications for web fonts, and expand the Latin glyph set. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BIZ UD is available in Gothic (BIZ UDGothic and BIZ UDPGothic) and Mincho (BIZ UDMincho and BIZ UDPMincho) in two weights (</span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/regular_upright" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Regular</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/knowledge/glossary/bold" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bold</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">). </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=Morisawa+Inc.&subset=japanese" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Try them out </span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and let us know what you think!</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>About the type foundries</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://en.morisawa.co.jp/" target="_blank">Morisawa</a> is Japan’s leading font foundry that has never wavered from its commitment to undertaking research and development in typography since its establishment in 1924 – the year it invented the first Japanese phototypesetting machine. The company provides font licenses for over 1,500 typefaces of Japanese and multi-script, web font services, embedded fonts, and multilingual e-magazine/book solution services. Their library includes typefaces from TypeBank and its group company Jiyukobo.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><h2 style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.typenetwork.com/" target="_blank">Type Network</a> brings together the world’s best independent type foundries and designers, offering a carefully chosen collection of their fonts for all uses and negotiating on their behalf with our clients on custom design projects and enterprise licensing. Through their partners, they also offer a wide range of other typographic services, including consulting, teaching, and lecturing around the world. </span></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Type Network team has been working in digital type since desktop publishing first gave designers the tools to take control of their own typography.</span></span></span></h2><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="color: #666666;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Dave Crossland, Google Fonts Lead UX Programs and Operations Manager</span></p></span></span></span></div></span></div><div class="messages"></div>Dave Crosslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08527278942886070399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-82404917395042779502022-01-13T10:46:00.001-08:002022-01-13T10:46:37.221-08:00Flow and Redacted: Check out these new options for wireframes and other early-stage designs<span id="docs-internal-guid-4fdde18b-7fff-b34e-701b-0efcf4543d2c"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 287px; overflow: hidden; width: 720px;"><img height="287" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/BYJlNMBmQDi84EyThRzCYDILU16RUOdYidB-P4oGD3sK15OlNmZGG5VqsDARwlnPnJ4AJl3D1bgOIoZWMkFaiLl6E9LNcl91So_nRagoJSk00ZA-BRQNLPNCzZi4g12ICk6nLm9k" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="720" /></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Give your simulated text a realistic look while making it easy to add copy later on with Dan Ross’s </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=Dan+Ross" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Flow Fonts</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and Christian Naths’s </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?query=Redacted" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Redacted</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #666666; font-size: 16pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Showing text in an early-stage wireframe can be distracting, even if it’s just Lorem ipsum placeholder copy. After all, a successful wireframe is clean and simple, with just enough information to communicate an idea. But how do you convey “this is text” without showing text? </span></p></span><span><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">One popular technique is to draw shapes that resemble a block of redacted text. (Redacted text is usually used as a security or privacy measure in a document to make certain words unreadable.)</span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Another technique is to use handwritten scribbles. This creates a sketch-like look that’s especially suited to quick concepting.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 156px; overflow: hidden; width: 413px;"><img alt="Images of handwritten scribbles and a block of redacted text." src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/GIEXC_pynakv5FE9xXdSGaDH0_-Zl1BCGJm5R-ebZWyELHDszTI8YYCMZ0kfHx_n2h6G2LKeeATlpNXVGY9s7afvtXJZBK-O061crkZi5b7E_ADNNEbF_wiLqrs_I5b7tDW41-4B=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: -4.45999px;" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #4a86e8;">Examples of text substitution styles used in wireframing.
Left: Redacted Script, a handwritten scribble style. Right: Redacted text style. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><br /><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But instead of simulating redacted text with scribbles or shapes, now you can use a typeface to achieve the same effect. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 433px; overflow: hidden; width: 200px;"><img alt="Image of an app UI with Flow Rounded" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/Hne87hny8aZ6CKlYGio0lUjFqrOg_q4_zxyPXJAGudwAim8KOxhTjW5FpGNlDIKTCwFefGxASdcbtASq3C1EIDe3v2T8w_qX2fvw1f1o2U3MOgFaVgnlXQMQ5Rqnc_tQHTzuS0c8=s16000" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #4a86e8;">Flow Rounded in use</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flow Circular, Flow Block, and Flow Rounded from Dan Ross and Redacted from Christian Naths are four redacted text options. For a handwritten scribble style, try Nath’s Redacted Script, which is available in Light, Regular, and Bold.</span></p><p style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-family: times; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Flow and Redacted not only make it easier to give your wireframes the look you want, they also make it easier to drop in copy later on (since you won’t have to replace shapes with text or switch out components). Plus, since fonts don’t destroy the underlying text data, all it takes is a single click to go from text to redacted text—and back again. </span></p></span><span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All five fonts are available now on </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/share?selection.family=Flow+Block%7CFlow+Circular%7CFlow+Rounded%7CRedacted%7CRedacted+Script" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">fonts.google.com</span></a><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">Posted by Sarah Daily, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #999999; font-family: inherit; text-align: center;">Brand and Content Consultant</span></p></span></span><span><br /><br /><br /><br /></span>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-24199734332982966982021-10-25T19:55:00.000-07:002021-10-25T19:55:18.928-07:00The Story of Zen Fonts - interview with Yoshimichi Ohira<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-c5d563de-7fff-61e9-6423-8cea7aad6e6b"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/Japaneseinterview.html " target="_blank">日本語の記事を読む</a></span></span></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">This interview is a sequel to </span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></i><i><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/say-hello-to-our-big-new-japanese.html " target="_blank"><span id="docs-internal-guid-ce483297-7fff-5c58-8a30-bb58667b2c5b"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Say Hello to our big new Japanese collection with Zen Fonts: </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; white-space: pre-wrap;">Learn about the complex beauty of Japanese fonts.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">"</span></a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span><span id="docs-internal-guid-0fb3c8c5-7fff-74d5-7af9-afe25673a553"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">By Min-Young Kim</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;">
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Hi, Mr. Ohira. Thanks for making time to talk about your fonts with us. Could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your pathway to starting this project?
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Thanks for inviting me. It’s my pleasure to share my project on Google Fonts. I started my design career as a DTP operator for phototypesetting. The beauty of the typeface influenced me so much that I wanted to design one myself. Back then, the typesetting order came from several organizations, such as printing offices, publications, advertisers, etc. Each organization had different preferences for what kind of typefaces they wanted, but I always felt there should be something that they all have in common. With Zen Fonts, I aimed to create a highly legible, classy typeface that would work for any creative purpose, and that would live long past 100 years. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What kind of reaction did you get when you first released the Zen family?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The first typeface was released in 1997, the Zen Old Mincho, with only one Regular weight. To be honest, I didn’t get much reaction at that time. But the following year the typeface started to get some attention among designer communities; little by little, more and more designers contacted me to purchase the font. Back then I was so worried and not sure if I, the small independent vendor, could make a living from selling font licenses, but after releasing multiple weight families, the business became stable and it was all worth the hard work.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Zen Old Mincho text written in Japanese with some styles and weights" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/99XlxO33pEOmUBwWXWSBwRqqn1SR5mkfMupSfwBSjMdgC7ojclFc-WP4nlrbi3YYmZvReqEkc4pOYHu3dq35IQesYRmQ4Ut4x7GBI3Vq-hmW8GKuaKSa09sOvMIEgY5TA1hDK2bq=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-7ae551c4-7fff-b17a-959f-ee7ca0419b8c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen Old Mincho</span></p><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What did you focus on, or have in mind, regarding the readability of the font when you designed it?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> In my opinion, traditional designs are friendlier to users and thus easy to read. People are always attracted to beautiful designs because they foster a smooth reading experience. A comfortable reading rhythm is created by controlling the dynamics. For these reasons, I believe traditional and beautiful design with well controlled dynamics</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">brings high quality legibility, and so I focused on them when designing the Zen Fonts.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Man and woman sitting by fire with cups, conversation bubbles in Zen fonts" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/hC9Q_k_0kPwVOaJgYPwNfqajbMWUjkuND2wZVA98z9lDB9wOUz3Pi1CX3WThw6pkaqxE1St4ec2i-fg0BDkv390Uyx1T-zpU19QbrLf-9I_YyRC1odybDht1lUB0P-ytyFQgT20l=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zen Antique, Zen Antique S</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What kind of research did you do to create your font?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Old typefaces and books are the core base of my work. I used to look at them often </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">for inspiration. I could see how the flavor in the old letters influenced the legibility, and I would apply those discoveries in my designs.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> It’s amusing how you designed such a progressive typeface at that time from traditional books and letters. Why do you think there were no similar fonts like yours’ created before? Do you think the recent research or technology made it possible to create your font that didn’t exist previously?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> There are a lot of antique old-style metal typefaces that have good legibility. Those old typefaces gave me many ideas that I applied to my work. I believe that the good legibility of Zen Fonts comes from pursuing traditional old-style legibility. But there are many ways to approach the issue. If more type designers focus on legibility, we can have a variety of Japanese fonts with high legibility. </span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Zen Maru Gothic text written in Japanese with some styles and weights" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/tfKxS3weaP1bD_Mq-E-LwYgVZtwXVcjizBlloD_2QfLsRCbpBt3OOHm2ab9HIKDxT0Ipq1oqwdaYvhZnmqKmKTS1l6F_Y-y6MXlfVf_SBOpOR7kp0Ycs9SRQI3hcMOpExkIBva1S=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zen Maru Gothic</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Do you have any plans to expand your font families to multiple scripts? Are there any similar fonts that support multiple scripts?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I would love to expand the family, if possible. I believe that having a wide range of glyphs and supporting many scripts are very meaningful things to do. As for the latter question, I don’t think there are any Japanese fonts similar to Zen Fonts that support multiple scripts. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Kaku Gothic text written in Japanese with some styles and weights" height="452" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/8fUF7mhuAAuXYcoKD9pAQIvsM_fHwbdKyJjXW0AYv_3xxm69K6k42hkW3YGFax5t1oftAkVh3RRGvb04zi9pVv1QXdeH6OKgR94KcJl4QhwaAsnXN4PKSV74otR3DwNrjvzG2ujA=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zen Kaku Gothic</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What do you think we can do to help designers recognize the many factors that go into choosing fonts—that there’s more to consider (depending on the purpose of the design, or who the design is for) than the look or style of the design?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Let me share my experience. I once got a commission to design a signage system for a public facility that needed to follow the principles of universal design. I offered the Zen Font family, but the client wanted to know a logical reason why this font should be used for this project. So I gave them a detailed explanation about the good legibility of the Zen Font. A few days later, the client’s answer was yes, and they said that they did not think a single font could matter this much on legibility, and that their views on fonts have changed completely. Then I realized that not many users recognize the legibility of fonts. So my answer is that we need more opportunities and places to communicate between users and type designers, to share, discuss, and ask questions about fonts.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Zen Kurenaido text written in Japanese with some styles and weights" height="452" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/QS_QkYbUTVUUAfJL9MOcHQTicMJARbYpGNZS-YGGnaSVAHoxB_izSKWKf0oukID8iAbgbAQHY2N5vlEMXxSED06YgKcsdegSvicTHfLRkpKM4GBY69aYVD23zAGPym6Vfbpj0qqo=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Zen Kurenaido</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> What do you think is the next step for the current type and typography realm? Or, what do you wish already existed in the world for type and typography?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The number of fonts and type designers are increasing every year, but I’m afraid there aren’t enough fonts with memorable designs or good legibility. I wish that the type designers put more time to think deeply about the usage, purpose, and demand of the font. You need much more time than you think to design a font. This also means that the economic situation (budget and payment on font projects) and the environment of the realm should improve too. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Min] </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Thank you for the wonderful insights and comments. This is the last question—what’s next for you in type & typography?</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #ff9900; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[Ohira]</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> I’m not sure yet, but, probably wandering around the world to meet more letters and types.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="Black and white photo of Yoshimichi Ohira wearing glasses" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/abDl8SomqP2f8z7PIVVk8vyH45SB1yEL-GZNaurKSZ59Qv4k2P1kWyNjSAlqoGTSVrKEA0LIayNEHPGIqDmogR63kJIxfSNIhq96vPed8r6uaqQqoGoPtRhRAHWvwYjeQxOeNh9V=w317-h320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="317" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yoshimichi Ohira</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">About Yoshimichi Ohira</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ohira became a type designer after building his career in typography. He has designed 23 Japanese fonts and three Latin fonts. One of his major works is Zen Old Mincho N Family, which pursued traditional Japanese beauty. In addition to type design, he also works on creating metal seals (Hanko). </span><a href="https://www.zenfont.jp/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen Fonts</span></a></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b157929a-7fff-2ffe-cc8e-bab4724fffc0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the author<br /></span></span></span><span id="docs-internal-guid-b157929a-7fff-2ffe-cc8e-bab4724fffc0"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Min-Young Kim is a UI/UX and typography consultant based in Tokyo, with a focus on trilingual Korean-Japanese-Latin multiscript typography. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">While not yet a typeface designer herself, Min has developed a career in the font business as a type project manager, and started her own studio Em Dash in 2020. She recently worked with Google Fonts on Japanese and Korean font development projects, Adobe Creative Cloud on East-Asian UX research & design, and was invited to the jury of the D&AD Awards 2021 for type design. With a deep understanding of typography, Min is dedicating her life to diversifying the potential of fonts in various products and environments, and hopes more people can find the fun in choosing and using type. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mintoming" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mintoming</span></a><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4-C_8HAO8T4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AtypI presentation</span></a></span></div><div><br /></div>tobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04028054474788286862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-9451798221458358292021-10-25T19:54:00.002-07:002021-11-04T21:06:44.052-07:00Zenフォントのおはなし:大平善道さんとのインタビュー<div><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-6c441dfa-7fff-b290-5f61-be37b13dbfea"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/the-story-of-zen-fonts-interview-with.html " target="_blank"><br /></a></p><div><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/the-story-of-zen-fonts-interview-with.html " target="_blank">For the English version of this interview, click here.</a>
</span></div><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">筆者: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">きむみんよん</span></div></span></span></span></div><div><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-1be40a8c-7fff-5851-6aca-c4a0bb58cc68"><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">[きむ] </span> 本日はインタビューに応じていただき誠にありがとうございます。まず、大平さんについてご紹介いただけますでしょうか?どのような経緯でタイプデザイナーになり、Zenファミリーのプロジェクトを始めることになったのかぜひ聞かせてください。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> ご招待くださりありがとうございます。私は写植でのDTPオペレーターを経験した際に、書体の美しさに触れ、私自身も書体を作りたいと思うようになりました。当時の組版発注者は、印刷、出版、映像、広告関係者でした。製作者によって指定書体に偏りがありましたが、その中でも共通する書体があることを知りました。Zen書体で目指したのは、どのような制作物にも共有できるオールマイティーな書体ファミリーです。そして、読みやすく美しい、息の長い100年続く書体を生み出したいと考えました。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Zenオールド明朝の3種類のウェイトと縦書き、横書きの使用例。あらゆる場面で使いやすく、格調を備えたオーソドックスなオールドスタイル明朝ファミリー。" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/99XlxO33pEOmUBwWXWSBwRqqn1SR5mkfMupSfwBSjMdgC7ojclFc-WP4nlrbi3YYmZvReqEkc4pOYHu3dq35IQesYRmQ4Ut4x7GBI3Vq-hmW8GKuaKSa09sOvMIEgY5TA1hDK2bq=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zenオールド明朝</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">[きむ] </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zenファミリーをリリースした当時の反応はどうでしたか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 1997年、ZENオールド明朝-R(Regular)は1ウエイトだけのリリースでした。正直に言うと、当時の反応は殆どありませんでした。しかし、翌年から徐々にデザイナーさん達のコミュニティなどで書体が認知されるようになり、ZENオールド明朝を探し求め、購入者がどんどん増えていったことを思い出します。当時を振り返ると、小さなベンダーがライセンス事業で本当に成り立つのか?とても不安でした。結果的にファミリー化も実現し、ここまで継続できたことは非常に意義のある経験でした。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[きむ] </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zenファミリーをデザインする際に、高い可読性を持たせるためにどのようなことを意識しながら制作しましたか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 伝統的なものは、親近感が湧くのでわかりやすい。美しいものには、惹かれるので違和感が生まれにくい。そしてメリハリは、強弱などがあり、可読にふさわしい心地よいリズムをつくると考えられます。これらの理由から「伝統的」や「美しい」、「メリハリ」には、質の高い可読性を呼び込む要因があると考えて、意識していました。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="イラストで男性と女性がキャンプファイヤーを囲み、Zenアンチックについて話をしている。吹き出しはZenアンチックで書かれている。" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/hC9Q_k_0kPwVOaJgYPwNfqajbMWUjkuND2wZVA98z9lDB9wOUz3Pi1CX3WThw6pkaqxE1St4ec2i-fg0BDkv390Uyx1T-zpU19QbrLf-9I_YyRC1odybDht1lUB0P-ytyFQgT20l=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zenアンチック、ZenアンチックS</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[きむ] </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">制作の際に、どのようなリサーチなどをされましたか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 古い活字や古い書物をよく眺めました。文字の中に味わい深さを感じとり、可読性も感じられました。これらの文字から多くを学び、影響を受けました。私の書体制作の基盤となっています。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">[きむ] </span> あのような画期的な書体を古い書物等からお作りになったのは素晴らしいですね。それまでにZenファミリーのような書体が存在してなかった作られなかったのはなぜだと思いますか?現代の技術と研究があれば、Zenファミリーのような書体をもっと作ることは可能だと思いますか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 過去の古い活字には高い可読性を持ったオールドスタイルの書体はたくさんありました。私はその古い書体から多くのヒントをいただき作品に反映させてきました。そして、オールドスタイルを重要視して読みやすさを追求した結果、Zenファミリーの「良い可読性」が得られたと思ってます。どこにアプローチするかが大切です。様々な可読性へのアプローチがあれば書体に多様性を育みます。そして、高い可読性を持つ書体がたくさん生まれてくると考えてます。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Zen丸ゴシックの縦書き、横書きを含めた5種類のウェイトの使用例。おしゃれで可愛らしい、柔らかくて優しいといったキーワードでのコミュニーケーションに最適。" height="452" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/tfKxS3weaP1bD_Mq-E-LwYgVZtwXVcjizBlloD_2QfLsRCbpBt3OOHm2ab9HIKDxT0Ipq1oqwdaYvhZnmqKmKTS1l6F_Y-y6MXlfVf_SBOpOR7kp0Ycs9SRQI3hcMOpExkIBva1S=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen丸ゴシック<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[きむ] </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">今後大平さんの書体を多言語展開をしたいと思いますか?Zenファミリーと似た方向性のほかの日本語書体の中で多言語展開しているものはありますか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 文字の拡張や多言語展開はとても有意義なことだと思うので、ぜひ挑戦してみたいです。Zenファミリーに似た他の日本語書体で多言語展開しているものはないと思います。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Zen角ゴシックの10種類のウェイトの使用例。" height="452" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/8fUF7mhuAAuXYcoKD9pAQIvsM_fHwbdKyJjXW0AYv_3xxm69K6k42hkW3YGFax5t1oftAkVh3RRGvb04zi9pVv1QXdeH6OKgR94KcJl4QhwaAsnXN4PKSV74otR3DwNrjvzG2ujA=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen角ゴシック</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">[きむ] </span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">フォントを利用するユーザーのみなさんに、フォントによっていかに「読みやすさ」が変わるかを認識してもらうためには、どんなことができると思いますか?見た目のデザイン的な要素だけでなく、目的や読み手によってフォントの選定基準が変わることをもっと知ってもらうために、わたしたちができることはなにがあると思いますか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 私の体験談をお話します。以前、バリアフリーに関わる公共施設のサイン計画について、デザイン会社から相談の依頼がありました。私はZenファミリーフォントを提案しましたが、クライアントはなぜそのフォントが適しているのか詳しく説明して欲しいとのことでした。そこで、私はいかにZen書体が読みやすいか詳しく説明しました。後日、クライアントから「今まで以上に書体と可読性の関係性について理解でき、書体の見方が変わりました」との連絡をいただきました。ユーザーと接するなかで「読みやすさ」について認識されている方は少ないと感じてます。ユーザーや書体デザイナーが気軽にフォントについて相談できる場所の提供や、意見を共有できる仕組みが必要なのかも知れません。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Zen紅道の使用例。中心に縦書きで大きく”紅道”、左横に赤い鯉の絵が書かれている。" height="452" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/QS_QkYbUTVUUAfJL9MOcHQTicMJARbYpGNZS-YGGnaSVAHoxB_izSKWKf0oukID8iAbgbAQHY2N5vlEMXxSED06YgKcsdegSvicTHfLRkpKM4GBY69aYVD23zAGPym6Vfbpj0qqo=w640-h452" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen紅道</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700;">[きむ]</span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">今現在のフォントやタイポグラフィ業界における課題はなんだと思いますか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> フォントや書体デザイナーの数が年々増えていますが、記憶に残るデザイン、良い可読性を持つフォントが少ないように感じてます。使われ方、目的、需要などを熟慮し、貴重な時間を惜しみなく使い、制作に挑んで欲しいと思います。フォント制作に挑むには多くの時間を必要とします。書体デザイナーの取り巻く環境、経済的な問題をクリアーできる仕組みも必要ではないでしょうか。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt;">[きむ]</span> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 貴重なお時間をありがとうございました。最後になりますが、</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">大平さんの書体やタイポグラフィにおける次の旅はどこに続きますか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #ff9900; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">[大平]</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> 今はわかりませんが、たぶん、文字との出会いを大切にした放浪の旅に出るかも知れません。</span></p><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="白黒の写真で白いYシャツ着用し、黒縁のメガネをかけた大平義道氏" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/abDl8SomqP2f8z7PIVVk8vyH45SB1yEL-GZNaurKSZ59Qv4k2P1kWyNjSAlqoGTSVrKEA0LIayNEHPGIqDmogR63kJIxfSNIhq96vPed8r6uaqQqoGoPtRhRAHWvwYjeQxOeNh9V=w318-h320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="318" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">大平善道氏のプロフィール写真</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">大平善道</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">文字組版と向かい合う中で、いつしか書体デザインに携わる。これまで和文23書体、欧文3書体の作品を製作し、代表作は、和文の伝統的な美しさを追求した「ZENオールド明朝Nファミリー」など。現在は印章で用いる古代文字(篆書)に関心を抱き、オリジナルデザインの文字で金属製印鑑を製作している。</span><a href="https://www.zenfont.jp/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen Fonts</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">きむみんよん</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; white-space: normal;">日韓英</span>トリリンガルのUIUX&タイポグラフィコンサルタント。専門は多言語タイポグラフィ。日本の大手タイプファウンダリにてフォントのプロジェクトマネージャーを経て、現在は個人事務所Em Dash(エムダッシュ)を立ち上げ、様々なプロジェクトに参加している。近年ではGoogle Fontsとの日本語および韓国語のフォント開発、Adobe Creative Cloudの東アジア言語のUXリサーチ&デザイン、D&AD Awards 2021にてタイプデザイン部門の審査委員などに携わっている。タイポグラフィの知識を活かし、フォントの可能性を広げ、より多くの人々に文字とフォントの楽しさを伝えていくことを目標としている。 </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mintoming" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mintoming</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4-C_8HAO8T4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AtypI presentation</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><br /></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-30103613451451485272021-10-25T19:51:00.002-07:002021-10-25T19:53:08.373-07:00Say Hello to our big new Japanese collection with Zen Fonts: Learn about the complex beauty of Japanese fonts<p><b><br /></b></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-64865794-7fff-1557-479f-19b38813d71f"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/zen_0361327225.html" target="_blank">日本語で記事を読む</a></span></span></p><p><b>By <span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Min-Young Kim</span></b></p><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-f3a15377-7fff-99ef-242e-6a90affbbb09"><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 2019, Google Fonts started an ambitious project to expand its font library with a variety of typeface designs for Japanese. At that point Google Fonts had fewer than 10 Japanese families, most of which were basic Mincho (serif) and gothic (sans) designs. Since then the collection of Japanese fonts within the library has grown, now with </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/?subset=japanese" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">38 font families</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> from 18 designers, in a variety of styles – from formal text types to fun display fonts. All these Japanese fonts are now live on Google Fonts for anyone to test out and use in any project.</span></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="A featured image in the Zen font family in light purple, green, red, and light brown, with black shapes and lines, and the name of the Zen font" height="320" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mVCCoSQbG082gv9CdhgtvLuX9GdbPqsOA_8U7x0rEkXp5rPvFMwhTh3iD1kUBCI5nEvhISPV3zwbR4o29xxZUokBR1xq5Wq2GaRUPVAKrXQXR2q3Oonw6uO4lrH1PvhL2Y2JhoJ1=w640-h320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen Fonts collection is the l</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">argest set of Japanese fonts on Google Fonts</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of this larger effort to expand Japanese offerings, Google Fonts collaborated with type designer Yoshimichi Ohira to open his prestigious collection of Zen Fonts typefaces to the public. With 23 Japanese and three Latin fonts in various styles of mincho (serif), gothic (sans serif), maru (rounded), and display styles, the </span><a href="https://fonts.google.com/share?selection.family=Zen+Antique|Zen+Antique+Soft|Zen+Kaku+Gothic+Antique:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Kaku+Gothic+New:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Kurenaido|Zen+Maru+Gothic:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;700;900&preview.text=%E4%BA%BA%E9%A1%9E%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%99%E3%81%B9%E3%81%A6%E3%81%AE%E6%A7%8B%E6%88%90%E5%93%A1%E3%81%AE%E5%9B%BA%E6%9C%89%E3%81%AE%E5%B0%8A%E5%8E%B3%E3%81%A8%E5%B9%B3%E7%AD%89%E3%81%A7%E8%AD%B2%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%A8%A9%E5%88%A9%E3%81%A8%E3%82%92%E6%89%BF%E8%AA%8D%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF&preview.text_type=custom&query=Yoshimichi+Ohira" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zen Fonts collection</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is now the largest set of Japanese fonts in Google Fonts’ expansive library, and is also available in </span><a href="https://fonts.adobe.com/designers/yoshimichi-ohira" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adobe Fonts</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Check out </span><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/the-story-of-zen-fonts-interview-with.html" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Story of Zen Fonts - interview with Yoshimichi Ohira</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to learn more.</span></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Four lines of Japanese text with labels for “Katakana,” “Hiragana,” “Kanji,” and “Japanese Punctuation" height="375" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/t2KoHIbvqwEQT0CWCq2kZH9GYDy0p9uS7J44Y9AC4-3mL_3V-MOgR2XhW-PLRqIiCE2u9Ao09nJLdlLY1W1bhtLbtEGhzwoKlbVyIJlH3GAHVwM1XR8pq_6r80ucTBYMMMdefB2a=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Different kinds of scripts are used to write in Japanese</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Understanding the culture of Japanese fonts</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese fonts have unique features and systems that aren’t seen in other Asian scripts. To understand, evaluate, develop, and release quality fonts for partners and users, the Google Fonts team needed to learn about and respect this unique typography culture. As a typography consultant, I developed a new evaluation criteria for Google Fonts that included all the important characteristics of good Japanese fonts.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese is a complicated script</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese is a melting pot of scripts! There are five scripts most commonly used today in Japan. The first can be traced back more than a thousand years to China, when Japanese people borrowed Chinese characters to write their language. These Chinese characters are called “Kanji” in Japan. In the 1100s, the Japanese developed much simpler forms of letters called Kana. There are two sets of Kana, Hiragana, and Katakana; Hiragana is used for Japanese words, while Katakana is an alternative to Hiragana used for foreign or unfamiliar words. Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana were used together to write Japanese text for hundreds of years. In recent centuries, Japanese people also adopted Arabic numerical figures and the Latin script, which is commonly used for English or other European languages—similar to many other places around the world. The very best Japanese fonts support all these writing systems, but many excellent Japanese fonts may have limited or zero Kanji characters.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What a big character set!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compared to Latin fonts made for European language users, Japanese fonts with Kanji typically contain a huge number of characters—the biggest common standard for Japanese character sets spans over 23,000 glyphs. Not only do Japanese typeface designers have many glyphs to draw, but they must also handle many different kinds of character sets. There are also various different standards for categorizing. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kanji sets: Adobe, JIS, Jōyō, and educational Kanji</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) system, with its four levels, is a popular way to categorize Kanji characters. “Name Kanji” are used specifically for names of places and people, and each of the JIS levels has a different selection of them. “Educational Kanji” is the smallest Kanji set, which includes Kanji that are taught in elementary schools, divided into 6 levels. “Jōyō” means “usual usage” and refers to the 2,136 Kanji that are used in official documents or news broadcasts, which people learn up until the end of high school. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Many Japanese fonts support </span><a href="https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/Adobe-Japan1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adobe’s Japanese character sets</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. The Adobe Japan 1-3 set (with 9,354 glyphs) is perhaps the most common, while the Adobe-Japan 1-6 set is the biggest. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">These are related to the JIS levels, such as the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character set matching the JIS level 2. These contain all the Kanji used in everyday life, plus some more specific, yet common ones. Adobe-Japan 1-6 supports all four levels of JIS Kanji and enables texts for any occasion in Japan.</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS Level 1: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> With a foundation of 2,965 characters, this level includes the “educational Kanji” and “Jōyō Kanji” groups. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS level 2:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> With the addition of 3,390 Kanji to the Level 1 set, Level 2 covers all the most commonly used characters in everyday Japanese life. It also matches the Adobe-Japan 1-3 character set.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS Level 3: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This matches Adobe-Japan 1-4 with an additional 1,259 characters, but is a midway to a wider range of Kanji expression; many recently-developed Japanese fonts cover either JIS level 2 or 4. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS Level 4: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This is the JIS Kanji classification level with the biggest character set. Most of the 2,436 Kanji included here are rarely seen in daily life but are still needed for formal publications and government-related texts to address specific words or names.</span></p></li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JIS Level 1 contains simple Kanjis, while JIS Level 4 Kanjis are more complex and consist of more strokes." height="375" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/sadr9nPv36aDWjWYEIgAX5YADGnSBabZ3_MCKVOqRfEBJFZPaJz34RKknEd7ebDruhm6hiRXPHb78EQaNmpu393a_Rs48ImBTotwiouOANt3rRQxM995eK7ZpQfNjSmLNcKNWkwW=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">The higher the JIS level is, the more often complicated and rare Kanjis are included</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">In working to publish new font families in the Japanese font development programme, we had to juggle an enormous number of characters. Most font families passed the bar set by the Adobe-Japan 1-3 standard—as that is commonly used as a minimal “full set”—while some fonts had coverage of JIS level 3. Some supported only the Educational Kanji.</span></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Four lines of text displaying the variety of different character types" height="375" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/k9Ap16kv6guEpGSdrERy8U3zWzVwE4ktcaPeIfOd5m4LsGBK_dm7AxPGb6GRJEgkz-Y1PUg357LNOLFXx6bzz7DVTADJ7XYEG645tpzDZ_lj3t1hk4r_nJ5-g_lKOvXzn4MCRsFz=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese fonts with the different kinds of character sets available on Google Fonts</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Alternative Kanji glyphs</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kanji can have alternative glyphs and there are two perspectives on the need for this.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Current Kanji letterforms in digital fonts are different from what we write with a pen and a brush. They often use more simple structures, which are easier to design as fonts, but harder for readers to understand as the actual anatomy of the Kanji letterforms may be unclear—especially to learners. An alternative Kanji glyph design trend is to add brush-like characteristics to the letterform designs, which is known as a “humanist” style. These design details allow readers to see more familiar Kanji forms and may enable children to learn Kanji more easily. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;"><br /></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">There are several alternative glyphs for the older form of Kanji, mostly used for publications, official documents, or intended design. Even though it’s an “old form”, these Kanjis are still seen on many occasions. </span></span></p><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Four examples of default Kanji glyphs vs. their common alternative glyph counterparts (逢, 葛,祇, 噌)" height="375" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/aawkmSW98ee27RmzLSMQhJmMOgK03h3WMEm0hVz4w-tJ_w0W0kllsTSYJMhApekt8fXrb9P1xcDM7FuB6NM2AWU-I4PbAHj3-IAAc_SyuK_kVE3zmIdDi365VA7XWfmFXNzXD71z=w640-h375" style="color: #4a86e8; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-9d8a0b15-7fff-ea16-50eb-b619f9aaee49"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Common alternative Kanji glyphs </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><br /><div style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Latin inside Japanese fonts<br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese typeface designers call the Latin script section of their projects the “Subordinate Latin.” The typical Latin typeface has glyphs with varying proportional widths, but Kanji are designed to fit within a square space which means they are much wider than most Latin letterforms. This means a typical Latin font will look much too narrow when mixed in among Japanese characters. To allow Latin to blend with the other scripts in Japanese text, Latin letterforms are modified to be slightly wider and have shorter ascenders and descenders and bigger counters. In addition to this adjusted Latin, Japanese fonts also include a “full width” Latin design.</span></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="“Hello Type” set in Shippori Mincho Subordinate Latin vs. Times New Roman" height="375" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/GWV60kF-8L_085b92jL6fQFnprZvWoEhaZ7FSSxO-07u5DNA2gklFkndFbtiKyDnri9vWrrmPnnnlCdISGIcQtbh2LtYmzc45JEMHoDQ4bFFQ6afI1_bHZymTK8Ca_BsL6rDKJlB=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">Japanese Subordinate Latin (top) compared to Times New Roman (bottom)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">What the Japanese library means to the design community</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This project to expand the Google Fonts library to better support Japanese users was not just about expanding the fonts themselves. Adding new Japanese fonts to the global font platform demonstrates Google’s recognition of Japanese fonts and culture. Today, in Japan and Korea, many fonts are only available in-country and are not available for purchase or subscription abroad. Through Google Fonts, users from all over the world can now access and use Japanese fonts, and they have a new opportunity to meet and experience the beauty of this unique language.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">About the author</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Min-Young Kim is a UI/UX & typography consultant based in Tokyo, with a focus on trilingual Korean-Japanese-Latin multiscript typography. While not yet a typeface designer herself, Min has developed a career in the font business as a type project manager, and started her own studio “Em Dash” in 2020. She has recently worked with Google Fonts on Japanese and Korean font development projects, Adobe Creative Cloud on East-Asian UX research & design, and was invited to the jury of the D&AD Awards 2021 for type design, and presented at </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4-C_8HAO8T4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AtypI Tokyo</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. With a deep understanding of typography, Min is dedicating her life to diversifying the potential of fonts in various products and environments, and hopes more people can find the fun in choosing and using type. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mintoming" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mintoming</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div>tobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04028054474788286862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-83305930427443973542021-10-25T19:50:00.004-07:002021-11-04T21:08:59.618-07:00Zenフォント: 新しい日本語フォントコレクションの登場 - 日本語フォントの複雑な美しさについて - <div><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/say-hello-to-our-big-new-japanese.html " target="_blank">For the English version of this article, click here</a></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-e18388bb-7fff-8276-913d-1dc0e141c7f6"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><span id="docs-internal-guid-3be922f8-7fff-63e6-8f8e-e993a383bf6a"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">筆者: きむみんよん</span></span><br /></span></span><div><span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span id="docs-internal-guid-99131abe-7fff-16da-3349-1ea99f068688"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">2019年、Google Fontsは日本語フォントコレクションの大幅な拡大プロジェクトを始めた。当時Google Fontsには10ファミリー程度の日本語フォントしかなく、そのほとんどは基本的な明朝体やゴシック体のみだった。それが今では、本文用から見出し用まで様々なスタイルの<a href="https://fonts.google.com/?subset=japanese" target="_blank">38の書体が、18組のデザイナー</a>より追加され、豊富で多彩な日本語コレクションとなった。これら新しく追加された日本語フォントは、すべてGoogle Fontsを通して誰でも簡単にダウンロードして、どのようなプロジェクトにも使用することができる。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="7種類のZenフォントファミリーの名前と、薄紫、緑、赤、黄土色のそれぞれの背景色にさまざな太さの黒いラインでグラデーションが描かれている" height="320" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/HWRwf7EcZsiraIAjF99Hk-fI0dQ80jTrlJDi8UXUyIBSgVeY3C0_miLh-VN7A0c6Zxf6MNK7SYJ9NnYucoG86zrDiqDhmQHu0Z6WNZtWHY4UtaM2CrVjGgQA3jGghxeKQ4gxmEy8=w640-h320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-343b37db-7fff-b290-c626-3e17e87babe1"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fonts最大規模の日本語フォントコレクション、Zenフォントファミリー
</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">この日本語コレクションの拡大において最も力を注いだものの一つは、大平<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal;">善道</span>さんによるZenフォントコレクションの招致だった。<a href="https://fonts.google.com/share?selection.family=Zen+Antique|Zen+Antique+Soft|Zen+Kaku+Gothic+Antique:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Kaku+Gothic+New:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Kurenaido|Zen+Maru+Gothic:wght@300;400;500;700;900|Zen+Old+Mincho:wght@400;700;900&preview.text=%E4%BA%BA%E9%A1%9E%E7%A4%BE%E4%BC%9A%E3%81%AE%E3%81%99%E3%81%B9%E3%81%A6%E3%81%AE%E6%A7%8B%E6%88%90%E5%93%A1%E3%81%AE%E5%9B%BA%E6%9C%89%E3%81%AE%E5%B0%8A%E5%8E%B3%E3%81%A8%E5%B9%B3%E7%AD%89%E3%81%A7%E8%AD%B2%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%8D%E3%81%AA%E3%81%84%E6%A8%A9%E5%88%A9%E3%81%A8%E3%82%92%E6%89%BF%E8%AA%8D%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B%E3%81%93%E3%81%A8%E3%81%AF&preview.text_type=custom&query=Yoshimichi+Ohira" target="_blank">Zenフォント</a>はGoogle Fontsの新しい日本語コレクションにおける最も大きいファミリーとして、明朝体、ゴシック体、丸ゴシック体、そしてデザイン書体など全部で23の日本語書体と3つの欧文書体が加わり、更には</span><a href="http://fonts.adobe.com" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adobe Fonts</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">でも利用可能となった。(<a href="https://fonts.googleblog.com/2021/10/zen.html " target="_blank">より詳しくは:『Zenフォントのおはなし:大平<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: black;">善道</span></span>さんとのインタビュー』</a>)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="日本語のコンポジションはひらがな、カタカナ、漢字などさまざまな字種を混ぜて文書を作ります。それそれの字種の部分にタグが貼られている。" height="375" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/W5e4N01N_lZklGVAE1X-BbAEggrthUGhMCVjQTtLrAY19ihaKNLN7YslOrXXQTrLvlwkm6AfQ7dQsK78yUBo9lYWG0AJ_aa2KYAOqHz4l9iL-U8C6mYsVEkdZvCAqJ9p3cHWe8-G=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語を書くときは様々な字種を使用する。</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語フォントの構造を理解する</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語フォントには他の言語にはない独特の機能やシステムがある。それらを理解しクオリティの高い日本語フォントをリリースするため、Google Fontsチームはこの独特なタイポグラフィカルチャーを学ぶ必要があった。そのため、私はタイポグラフィコンサルタントとして、クオリティの高い日本語フォントが持つべき重要な特徴を評価する新しい基準を設けた。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語は複雑な文字である</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語は文字のるつぼかもしれない。日本語を書くためには、5種類の文字が必要だ。大昔の日本では、中国より漢字を借りて当て字をしていた(これを万葉仮名という)。1100年ごろになって、万葉仮名をくずして書いたひらがな、省略して書いたカタカナが生まれ、現代ではカタカナは外来語表記に使われている。さらに、アラビア数字と、欧米圏の言語表記のためのラテンアルファベットが加わった。これらすべての文字種を含む日本語フォントが主流だが、中には収録している漢字の数が少なかったり、漢字が全く入っていないけれども素晴らしいクオリティの日本語フォントもある。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">多様多彩な文字セット</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">欧米圏のユーザーのために作られた欧文書体に比べ、漢字を含む日本語フォントは膨大な文字数を持っている。最も大きい日本語の文字セットでは、なんと2万3千を超える文字が収録されており、日本語のタイプデザイナーは単純に描かなければいけない文字数が多いだけでなく、たくさんの種類の文字セットを扱わなければいけないのだ。これら日本語文字セットには様々な区分と基準が存在する。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">漢字の文字セット:Adobe、JIS、常用漢字、そして教育漢字</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本産業規格(JIS)に則った漢字の区分は4つの水準があり、一般的な漢字の文字セット分類の一つである。「人名用漢字」は戸籍に人の名前として登録できる漢字のうち常用漢字に含まれないものを言い、JIS漢字区分の各水準に分散して収録されている。最も小さい漢字の文字セットの「教育漢字」は、小学校で学ぶ漢字を収録しており、6つの段階で分かれている。「常用漢字」は高校までで習う漢字領域で、法令、公用文書、新聞、雑誌、放送など、一般の社会生活において現代日本で必要不可欠な2,136字の漢字を収録している文字セットである。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">多くの日本語フォントは</span><a href="https://github.com/adobe-type-tools/Adobe-Japan1" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Adobe-Japan 1</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">に準拠しており、Adobe Japan 1-3(9,354文字)が最も一般的で、Adobe-Japan 1-6が最も大きい文字セットだ。</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">これらはJISの漢字水準とも繋がっており、例えばAdobe-Japan 1-3はJIS漢字の第二水準に相当する。この文字セットは一般生活で必要な漢字に加えて、利用頻度が低めの珍しい漢字もいくつか収録している。Adobe-Japan 1-6はJIS漢字の第四水準まですべて収録しており、どのような日本語文章も組むことができる。</span></p><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS 第一水準: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 全ての教育漢字と常用漢字の一部を含めた2,965文字を収録している。</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /><br /></span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS 第二水準:</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 第一水準に3,390文字を追加しており、一般生活で必要な漢字が含まれている。Adobe-Japan 1-3文字セットに相当する。</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS 第三水準: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">第二水準にさらに1,259文字が追加された、Adobe-Japan 1-4に相当する文字セットだが、中途半端な範囲なため、近年開発される日本語フォントの多くはJIS第二水準もしくは第四水準のどちらかの文字セットを収録している。</span></p></li></ul><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS 第四水準: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JIS漢字水準のうち最も大きい文字セット。第四水準で追加される2,436文字のほとんどは極めて珍しい漢字だが、出版物や行政書類などで必要な単語や固有名詞を記すのに必要となる。</span></p></li></ul><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="JIS 第一水準は永、花、円、英など馴染みのある漢字が含まれ、JIS 第四水準では飂、蘞など日常では滅多に目にすることない漢字が含まれる。" height="375" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KzxGPyYllkOKWhjfhRyZVPFKWaUMjOfQYAPbknrQQnWZgNCYstQMOoZE_8yrFTYPK4yg5LjcfHQihtj3vUFaOaldI0kkDbW-yDdhgKvTgwHQFk2rBjGmXPvQlOTh29EG6HId62y-=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-1fc18b97-7fff-dbb5-8fe8-19c8990dce99"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">JISの水準が高いほど、より複雑で珍しく画数も多い漢字が多くなる</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fontsの日本語フォントコレクション拡大において、膨大な数のフォントを開発・管理しなければいけなかったため、文字セットの理解はとても重要だった。ほとんどのフォントは最も一般的な文字セットのAdobe-Japan 1-3に準拠していたが、JIS第三水準に準拠したフォントや、教育漢字のみ収録しているフォントなど、様々なフォントがあった。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="かなフォントのPalette Mosaicから、JIS第三水準までカバーしているDela Gothicまで4種類のフォントの使用例。" height="375" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/k9Ap16kv6guEpGSdrERy8U3zWzVwE4ktcaPeIfOd5m4LsGBK_dm7AxPGb6GRJEgkz-Y1PUg357LNOLFXx6bzz7DVTADJ7XYEG645tpzDZ_lj3t1hk4r_nJ5-g_lKOvXzn4MCRsFz=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語フォントの様々な文字セットの例。すべてGoogle Fontsから利用することができる</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></b></p><h3 style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>漢字の異字体切替</b></span></h3><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">同じ漢字でも異なる形の「異体字」が存在することをご存知だろうか?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">現在デジタルフォントで見る漢字と、ペンや筆で書くときの漢字は字体が異なることがある。フォントはよりシンプルで簡素化した形をしているが、そこから漢字そのものの構造や字形を学ぶことは難しい。異体字の中にはこのように実際手で書くときの字体に近い楷書体的な特徴を着せた字形をしているものもある。これによって読者はより見慣れた形の漢字を目にすることができ、子供たちの漢字学習にも役立つ。</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">さらに、異体字の中には旧字体の漢字を含むものもある。出版物や公式文書、意図的なデザインとして利用されることが多いが、旧字体と言っても中には生活でまだよく目にする、使用頻度の高いものもある。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="逢, 葛,祇, 噌の異体字切替。" height="375" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/aawkmSW98ee27RmzLSMQhJmMOgK03h3WMEm0hVz4w-tJ_w0W0kllsTSYJMhApekt8fXrb9P1xcDM7FuB6NM2AWU-I4PbAHj3-IAAc_SyuK_kVE3zmIdDi365VA7XWfmFXNzXD71z=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">漢字の異体字切替の例。</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本語フォント内のラテンアルファベット(従属欧文)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">日本のタイプデザイナーは、日本語フォント内に入っているラテンアルファベットを「従属欧文」と呼ぶ。一般的な欧文書体は文字によってそれぞれ異なる字幅を持っているが(これをプロポーショナル字幅と言う)、漢字は全角で描かれているため、ほとんどのラテンアルファベットより横に長い平体に見えてしまう。これを解決すべく、日本語フォント内の他の字種と調和させるために、字幅を若干広くする、アセンダーやディセンダーを狭くする、カウンター(ふところ)を大きくするなどの調整を施したものが従属欧文である。加えて、他の言語では類を見ない「全角アルファベット」の収録も日本語フォントでは一般的である。</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="“Hello Type”の文で比較する従属欧文と純欧文の違い" height="375" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/C2glZqzKh7UjMwosmUKzxP6jKD1U_RIOaGH2RoGq5QnKo-KeUwB8v5j-mx-xHbREBct5i10cdA066PE44cpUoPSPHl_qtmEdtvanx2Cu9g_xfp4P4_hGjWcasayxd9gqJOEnCbnJ=w640-h375" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #4a86e8; font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; white-space: pre-wrap;">2つの文章は、各自、上は日本語フォント「しっぽり明朝」の従属欧文、下はTimes New Romanと異なるラテンアルファベットで組まれている。比べて見ると、日本語フォントの従属欧文のほうが、純欧文よりも字面が大きく、カウンター(ふところ)も広く描かれている。</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">デザインコミュニティにとって日本語フォントコレクション拡大が意味すること</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Google Fontsの日本語コレクション拡大は、単にフォントの数が増えるという事実以上の意味を持っている。グローバルフォントプラットフォームに日本語フォントが多数追加されることは、Googleがいかに日本語フォントと文化に注力しているかの証明でもあるのだ。現在、日本や韓国では、フォントの利用は国内でのみ可能で、海外からの購入やサブスクリプション契約はできないことが多い。今回の日本語フォントコレクション拡大により、Google Fontsを通して、全世界のユーザーが日本語フォントが使えるようになっただけではなく、日本語という独特な言語の美しさと出会い、体験することができるのだ。</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">きむみんよん</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: small; white-space: normal;">日韓英</span>トリリンガルのUIUX&タイポグラフィコンサルタント。専門は多言語タイポグラフィ。日本の大手タイプファウンダリにてフォントのプロジェクトマネージャーを経て、現在は個人事務所Em Dash(エムダッシュ)を立ち上げ、様々なプロジェクトに参加している。近年ではGoogle Fontsとの日本語および韓国語のフォント開発、Adobe Creative Cloudの東アジア言語のUXリサーチ&デザイン、D&AD Awards 2021にてタイプデザイン部門の審査委員などに携わっている。タイポグラフィの知識を活かし、フォントの可能性を広げ、より多くの人々に文字とフォントの楽しさを伝えていくことを目標としている。 </span><a href="https://twitter.com/mintoming" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">@mintoming</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><a href="https://youtu.be/4-C_8HAO8T4" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="color: #1155cc; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">AtypI presentation</span></a><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p></span></div>Susanna Zarayskyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03616445541937754799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-52828266733854857462021-10-15T14:05:00.003-07:002021-10-15T14:08:48.141-07:00New font family: Urbanist by Corey Hu<div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBdq2yhkqYQ/YWnrkSy5bBI/AAAAAAAATPM/AD0ydzzr6DEjd7IjUL6bbbrXPe8Z1wu4wCNcBGAsYHQ/s1601/1.%2BTitle.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1601" data-original-width="1601" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bBdq2yhkqYQ/YWnrkSy5bBI/AAAAAAAATPM/AD0ydzzr6DEjd7IjUL6bbbrXPe8Z1wu4wCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/1.%2BTitle.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 16px;">Urbanist is a low-contrast, geometric sans-serif inspired by Modernist typography and design. The project was launched by Corey Hu in 2020 with 9 weights and accompanying italics. Conceived from elementary shapes, Urbanist's neutrality makes it a versatile display font for print and digital mediums. </span></div><div><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></div><div><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043; font-size: 16px;">It is currently available as a variable font with a weight axis:</span><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043;"> <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Urbanist">https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Urbanist</a></span></div></div><div><span face=""Google Sans Text", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #3c4043;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vlyhLYr1Wjw/YWnrkc97IzI/AAAAAAAATPI/cryOjvXekvE_r2HM7jqhkQ6kbrJuNTTfwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1601/2.%2BVariable.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1601" data-original-width="1601" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vlyhLYr1Wjw/YWnrkc97IzI/AAAAAAAATPI/cryOjvXekvE_r2HM7jqhkQ6kbrJuNTTfwCNcBGAsYHQ/w640-h640/2.%2BVariable.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #999999; text-align: left;">Posted by Tobias Kunisch, Design Lead for Google Fonts</span></div>tobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04028054474788286862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-44617051531693294452016-12-07T23:55:00.001-08:002020-04-27T20:26:20.807-07:00Raising the quality of fonts in our collection<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Since the new <a href="https://fonts.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Fonts directory</a> launched in May, we’ve been hard at work improving the quality of the fonts in our collection. In June we invited a team of typeface designers and font engineers from around the world to our New York City offices to kick off a 4-months font improvement project. Each member of the team was selected for their extensive industry experience in type design or font production:</div>
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<li>Kalapi Gajjar (Indian type specialist)</li>
<li>Thomas Jockin (Latin type designer)</li>
<li>Nhung Nguyen (Vietnamese type specialist)</li>
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The team was tasked with improving the quality of fonts in our catalog. During the first week we examined the entire Google Fonts collection to determine the strengths and weaknesses. We considered various possible approaches to improving quality, and at the end of the week we decided to focus on typefaces that were already widely used and had great potential. We divided the project into three sprints.</div>
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Design work consisted of adding glyphs to support more languages, fixing incorrectly placed or shaped accent marks, re-spacing the type’s metrics and kerning, and in some cases re-drawing the designs from scratch. In each sprint we spent one week on quick improvements to one or two families, and three weeks for a deep dive on a single project.</div>
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To ensure we maintained a high standard of work and stayed true to the original intent of each design, our entire design process was done in the open (on <a href="https://github.com/google/fonts/" target="_blank">GitHub</a>) and was regularly documented in the <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/googlefonts-discuss" target="_blank">Google Fonts Discussions Group</a>. For each design, our team critiqued each other’s work, and kept in touch with the original designers whenever possible.</div>
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In the coming weeks, our team will push the new versions of these fonts. Updated fonts will appear in the Google Fonts directory, and the new higher quality designs will automatically benefit any site or product that uses the Google Fonts API.
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Larger, deep-dive projects:<br />
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<a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Alfa+Slab+One" target="_blank">Alfa Slab One</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cabin" target="_blank">Cabin</a> + <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cabin+Condensed" target="_blank">Cabin Condensed</a>, Comfortaa, Didact Gothic, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata" target="_blank">Inconsolata</a>, Jura, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Maven+Pro" target="_blank">Maven Pro</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Muli" target="_blank">Muli</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito" target="_blank">Nunito</a> (and a new <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Nunito+Sans" target="_blank">Nunito Sans</a>!), <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Pacifico" target="_blank">Pacifico</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Quicksand" target="_blank">Quicksand</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Rubik" target="_blank">Rubik</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/VT323" target="_blank">VT323</a>.</div>
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Smaller projects with wider language support:<br />
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Anaheim, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Anton" target="_blank">Anton</a>, Arvo, Bad Script, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bangers" target="_blank">Bangers</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Bevan" target="_blank">Bevan</a>, Bitter, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cabin+Sketch" target="_blank">Cabin Sketch</a>, Cutive Mono, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Dancing+Script" target="_blank">Dancing Script</a>, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Francois+One" target="_blank">Francois One</a>, Homenaje, Indie Flower, Kurale, Lobster, Lora, Marmelad, Metrophobic, Merriweather, Neuton, Oswald, Play, Podkova, Poiret One, Prata, Press Start 2P, Raleway, Rokkit, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Ropa+Sans" target="_blank">Ropa Sans</a>, Rubik Mono, Share Tech, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sigmar+One" target="_blank">Sigmar One</a>, Telex, Trocchi, <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Varela+Round" target="_blank">Varela Round</a>, Yanone Kaffeesatz.</div>
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Keep watching this blog for new posts by the team summarizing their type design processes, thoughts and decisions.
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<span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Crossland, Program Manager</span>
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Dave Crosslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08527278942886070399noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-57691399828268579842013-05-23T10:00:00.002-07:002020-04-27T20:26:21.233-07:00Adobe Typekit improves the Rosario typeface family<p>Since 2010, Google Fonts been collaborating with the Adobe Typekit team to create better web font technology. And now that many fonts first published by Google Fonts are also available in <a href="http://edgewebfonts.adobe.com ">Adobe Edge Web Fonts</a>, we’re extending that collaboration beyond just software to fonts themselves.</p>
<p>Together with Adobe, we want to improve the quality of open source fonts available to everyone publishing on the web. As a first step, the Typekit team has optimized Rosario, a humanist sans serif based on the classic proportions of Garamond’s type.</p>
<p>To start the process, Typekit reached out to the foundry, Omnibus Type, to request up to date copies of the font source files. Here are some examples of the possible optimizations that the Adobe team might make to a web font:</p>
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<li>Convert and/or clean up outlines, for design fidelity and file size efficiency</li>
<li>Re-componentize source fonts, for file size efficiency</li>
<li>Remove/reassign glyphs with incorrect Unicode code points, for semantic value</li>
<li>Add common missing glyphs (non-breaking space, soft hyphen)</li>
<li>Set vertical metrics values according to best practices</li>
<li>Set underline and strike-through values, for design consistency</li>
<li>Contribute PostScript hints and (if a typeface was designed for small sizes like paragraph text) TrueType instructions (also called hinting), which consist of instructions to the rasterizer embedded in the font file itself</li>
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<p>After making some of these improvements, Typekit sent their version back to the foundry to review and release on the <a href="http://omnibus-type.com">Omnibus Type homepage</a>. The updated Rosario family is now available in Typekit, Adobe Edge Web Fonts and Google Fonts.</p>
<p>Together with the Typekit team, we’re looking forward to more quality improvements in the future!</p>
<p><span class="byline-author">Posted by Dave Crossland, Font Consultant</span></p>Dave Crosslandhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08527278942886070399noreply@blogger.comMountain View, CA, USA37.3860517 -122.083851137.2851427 -122.2452126 37.486960700000004 -121.9224896tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-75781411073878286682013-04-05T12:08:00.000-07:002020-04-27T20:26:21.818-07:00Easier ways to find the right fontWe know that finding the right font for your website or blog is a personal choice, and there are many great fonts available to choose from on the web. Now when you search for a font that isn’t available on Google Web Fonts, we show you additional fonts available from Monotype. Each result is shown in the actual font so you can easily preview your options. To get more information on a font, simply click the link under it’s name.<br />
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We look forward to adding results from more web font providers in the future.<br />
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Posted by Raziel Alvarez, Software EngineerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-91573013327092854472012-10-04T14:41:00.000-07:002020-04-27T20:26:22.099-07:00Web fonts: a look under the hoodGoogle Web Fonts are viewed more than 1 billion times every day across the web, on more than 100 million web pages. To help you sort through and pick the right font for your site you can order fonts by popularity, and now you can check out usage data for each font too.<br />
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Click on "Analytics" in the upper right corner of the homepage to view the new analytics tab, where you can see and compare numbers for individual font views by browser, operating system and see usage trends. <br />
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You’ll see a list of fonts, ranked by the total number of all-time font views and sortable by time period.
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Clicking the views by platform tab on the left pane shows you a heatmap and pie charts of usage of each font by browser or operating system.<br />
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While browsing through fonts in the directory, you can also access analytics for an individual font at anytime by navigating to the Statistics tab on the font’s specimen page.<br />
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And finally, to help you compare and select fonts, clicking on the “Pairings” tab on the Specimen page will show you groupings of fonts that are frequently used together, based on actual usage data via the API.<br />
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Selecting the right font for your website is an expression of your personal style, and we hope to continue expanding the set of tools to help you do that. Happy browsing!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-45855683160357994222012-09-24T10:16:00.000-07:002020-04-27T20:26:20.845-07:00More places to get great fonts Open source fonts are good for the web: they’ve helped spur web font adoption, and made it easier for anyone to contribute improvements to fonts for the whole web community.<br />
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Today, we’re happy to announce that all the fonts in the Google Web Fonts directory are also available via Adobe’s new <a href="http://blog.typekit.com/2012/09/24/introducing-adobe-edge-web-fonts">Edge Web Fonts</a> service.<br />
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And on the heels of the recent release of <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro">Source Sans Pro</a>, another Adobe designed open source font, <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/09/source-code-pro.html">Source Code Pro</a>, is available today from both Google Web Fonts and Edge Web Fonts.<br />
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We’re also working with the Adobe team to hint some of the fonts in the collection, a process that will make them look better at smaller text sizes.<br />
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Here’s to a more accessible, translatable, and beautiful web!<br />
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Posted by Ajay Surie, Product ManagerUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-26527586229214602122012-08-09T12:54:00.000-07:002020-04-27T20:26:20.370-07:00Preview fonts with the new Poster modeSelecting just the right font for your website or application is a personal decision, and making sure the font harmonizes with your content is often time consuming. To help you narrow down your font choices, last week we <a href="http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/2012/08/new-fonts-early-access-and-more.html">announced</a> a new tool to compare individual characters in a pair of fonts side by side. Today, we’re introducing Poster Images, which allows you to easily see what a font looks like with different effects, on a variety of different backgrounds.<br />
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To start, visit the Google Web Fonts directory and select the Poster tab at the top.<br />
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Posted by Sang Tian, Software Engineering InternUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5481940162083676197.post-90895841230003360562012-08-02T11:13:00.000-07:002020-04-27T20:26:22.028-07:00New Fonts, Early Access, and MoreOver the last few months, we’ve been busy adding support for web fonts to <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/05/april-in-review-new-fonts-galore-and.html">Google documents</a> and <a href="http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2012/08/450-new-ways-to-make-your-google.html">Google presentations</a>. Today, we’re adding seven font families in Google Web Fonts, a new tool to compare similar fonts, and an early access program to get feedback on non-latin scripts in development.<br />
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When you choose a new font, you want it to look good for all your readers, regardless of the platform or browser they’re using. To help make fonts look better in more places, we’re starting to hint more families in Google Web Fonts, <a href="http://googlewebfonts.blogspot.com/2012/04/ttfautohint-reaches-its-30000-funding.html">thanks to</a> the <a href="http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/">ttfautohint project</a>, which automates this process. <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Amarante">Amarante</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Capriola">Capriola</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Courgette">Courgette</a>, and <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Quando">Quando</a> were hinted using this tool.<br />
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<a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Eagle+Lake">Eagle Lake</a> expands on our existing collection of calligraphic font styles, and you can use <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Metal+Mania">Metal Mania</a> to bring out your inner guitarist. We’re also very excited to be including a special contribution from our <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro.html">friends over at Adobe</a> - <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro">Source Sans Pro</a>, their first open source type family.<br />
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As the number of fonts in Google Web Fonts continues to grow, it’s becoming harder to select the right font from among many potential choices. To make this process easier, you can now easily compare two fonts side by side using the new comparison tool. Just add a few fonts to your collection, select Review, and click on the <b>Compare</b> tab at the top.<br />
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You can then overlay glyphs from each font on top of each other, and use the slider to transition between fonts to see the differences between them more clearly.<br />
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Non-latin fonts can be more complex than latin fonts, both as designs and as font software, which often require more time to develop and polish. The designers of these fonts may not be native readers, and we’re hoping for your feedback to help them understand where their fonts need improvement. You can try them out by downloading them from the Google Web Fonts <a href="http://www.google.com/webfonts/earlyaccess">early access page</a>.<br />
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