Post #1572365
2026-04-13 23:20 UTC
I was just watching a talk about a case study for a brand identity where a company needed a multilingual logo, and they had this pretty good elegant serif for the Latin version, and needed an Arabic version that "related to the Latin".
And then proceeded to Latinize the SHIT out of the Arabic. Like it barely looked like Arabic to me. Why? What a complete disregard for other cultures...
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@melvian@dragonchat.org 2026-04-13 23:23
It's weird to me that designers think they can force other scripts to look like Latin even when those scripts follow a completely different set of principles that readers of that script are accustomed to (as is very much the case for Arabic). In my mind the point of studying scripts other than Latin is that they ARE different and that they have a unique set of ideas. Maybe it's not too different than how most programmers don't really give a shit about the consequences of what they make and contribute to. No wonder it's hard for me to find people I admire...
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@EnigmaVoice@mastodon.ml 2026-04-14 03:45
@melvian