Category Archives: typesetting

Arabic typesetting: fonts of wisdom

By admin | Published: 5 August 2010

Arabic is the official language of 26 countries, the first language of nearly 300 million people and a second language of nearly 280 million more. Our studio often find themselves working away on several Arabic typesetting projects at any given time. Given this expertise, I've been reflecting on the broader history, my pick of professional Arabic fonts and how the field is developing.

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It’s all Greek to them

By admin | Published: 25 May 2010

One of our studio spotted a howler on the behalf of his alma mater. Cambridge University classics faculty has just opened a shiny extension building. In keeping with their studies, the doors have been decorated with a quotation in ancient Greek. The quote is Aristotle, meaning “All men by nature desire to know”. Unfortunately whoever was [...]

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Animation wraps New York in Turkish typesetting

By admin | Published: 5 October 2009

This only just falls within the scope of this blog, but I was struck by the cleverness and detail of this animation promoting a Turkish version of the New York Times. The video features some well known New York landmarks rendered using Turkish typesetting from the paper. • Jim Dickson is a director of WorldAccent Translation, [...]

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Clinton’s Russian translation presses the wrong button

By admin | Published: 9 March 2009

Sometimes it really is worth being confident in your translation. Say, for instance, you are major world statesperson meeting your Russian counterpart in front of the world’s press. If you decide to give them a “reset button” to symbolise your commitment to starting afresh, you really want the Russian text to say something along those [...]

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