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Digital Typeface Design and Font Development for Twenty-First Century Bangla Language Processing

Digital Typeface Design and Font Development for Twenty-First Century Bangla Language Processing
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Author(s): Fiona G. E. Ross (University of Reading, UK)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 15
Source title: Technical Challenges and Design Issues in Bangla Language Processing
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): M. A. Karim (Old Dominion University, USA), M. Kaykobad (Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh)and M. Murshed (Monash University, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3970-6.ch001

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Abstract

Typeface and font design are fundamental to textual communication, and therefore, such communication, whether for use in print or on screen, is greatly enhanced and facilitated by the development and application of high-quality designs. The chapter discusses the key issues that underpin best practice in Bengali digital type design—from a design’s conception to its implementation, that is, the design concept and brief, the character set, the design dimensions, character fitting, and also the considerations for harmonious multi-script setting. The design methodology described is founded on research-based practice in non-Latin type design and font development. It considers how past practices in type-making and typesetting affected current Bengali typeforms and how an evaluation of these practices, in conjunction with the use of the existing and emerging font technologies, can inform the practitioner in the design of high-quality cross-platform OpenType Bengali fonts.

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