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user-inactivated  ·  2747 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dodecaglotta: a Biblical typeface project

It's a beautifully-designed website. I love the highlight of links, especially to Wikipedia.

I don't care about the Bible, but such attention to details for a purpose is something to be admired. The typeface itself reminds of early printed books, which, I'm sure, was on purpose.

I can also appreciate the inclusion of the twelve main languages for the Bible.

(on an unrelated note, Coptic looks suspiciously like Gothic)





johnnyFive  ·  2747 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, it's akin to a lot of the early humanist typefaces, which I really like. When I had my own law practice, I adopted Bembo as my official typeface wherever possible.

The similarities to Gothic make sense, since they're both derived from Greek. One of the things that is screwing with me a little as I begin to learn Coptic myself are actually the similarities to Cyrillic. Except where it's different.

So, for example, Ϣ in Coptic is a sh sound, just like Cyrillic Ш (but not Щ). Easy enough. But then you have this little fucker: Ϥ. My brain wants this to be ch sound, just like Cyrillic Ч. But no, it's f. The ch in Coptic is Ϭ, which is of course more-or-less identical to Cyrillic б. Hashtag polyglotproblems.

user-inactivated  ·  2747 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"Welcome to derived languages, where everything's made up and the pointers don't matter!"

See Cherokee as another example.