typography
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Mr. Tea
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Ooh, nice one - I got halfway down and thought "There HAS to be some Arabic script in here somewhere" and there it was, of course - I really like the scripts a lot of Indian languages are written in, too.
One thing worth mentioning is this graphic artist who does titles for books and things, where the word is visually palindromic, i.e. if you rotate the word by 180 degrees it looks exactly the same as it did before. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that he's done is Clive Barker's Arabat:
Look at the title, then try rotating it in your head half a turn.
One thing worth mentioning is this graphic artist who does titles for books and things, where the word is visually palindromic, i.e. if you rotate the word by 180 degrees it looks exactly the same as it did before. The only thing I can think of off the top of my head that he's done is Clive Barker's Arabat:
Look at the title, then try rotating it in your head half a turn.
that's interesting Tea. did you also read that article about it doesn't matter the order of letters in a word you can read it anyway? i think it's as long as first and last letter are in place... pretty shocking when i first heard of it -- and it's true.
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Mr. Tea
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Yup, it's surprisingly easy to understand what the text is meant to say even though it ought to look like gobbledegook. Also, English is still largely intelligible f y wrt wth ll th vwls tkn t nd jst th cnsnnts lft - whereas in a more 'vowel-intensive' langauge like French you'd have no chance.
Also, a typography thread isn't complete without this:
Also, a typography thread isn't complete without this:
I gather that the really beautiful Arabic calligraphy came about as a result of the Islamic ban on figurative art - neat how forbidding one sort of expression caused the evolution of another.
that is an interesting way of looking at it and the idea does ring true on some level. for instance some have postulated that the many amazing qualities of Iranian films of the 60s-80s were partially a result of heavy state censorship.
but i'm not sure if the arab culture would not have had amazing caligraphy AS WELL AS figurative art if the later wasn't banned (the chinese did). as there would have been different or additional amazing qualities in Iranian cinema if it did not operate under the watchful eye of the government.
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