From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue May 04 2004 - 07:04:58 CDT
At 20:37 -0800 2004-05-03, D. Starner wrote:
>Again, change Hebrew to Latin and palaeo-Hebrew to Fraktur and see
>how many objections you get.
I should think far fewer; the legibility quotient is much different.
I have said before:
Set a German or Danish or Icelandic wedding invitation in Fraktur. No problem.
Set an Irish wedding invitation in Gaelic. No problem.
Set a Hebrew wedding invitation in Palaeo-Hebrew. Problem.
It's easy to decry "Fraktur and Gaelic are hard to read" but they
AREN'T, and their use in invitations, menus, and signage is testament
to that. The same does not obtain with Phoenician letterforms and
Hebrew.
>Again, no, you can't use archaic forms of letters in many
>situations, but that doesn't mean they aren't unified with the
>modern forms of letters.
From where I sit, it sure does.
-- Michael Everson * * Everson Typography * * http://www.evertype.com
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