Graphic Languages

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Graphic Languages is an impressive visual journey through the world's most influential writing systems - edited by Oliver Häusle in collaboration with leading international type designers and type experts. The focus is on the unique DNA of each typeface: its distinctive forms, its cultural significance and its inexhaustible power as a cornerstone of human communication. With its focus on design, the publication is both an inspiring introduction to the diversity of global writing systems and a comprehensive handbook for designers, from students to experienced professionals. Graphic Languages invites you to delve deeper into the fascinating history, meaning and creative potential of type systems. And it makes it clear that type not only communicates - it connects. A visual guide to the following Writing Systems: Adlam, Arabic, Armenian, Bengali, Chinese, Cyrilic, Devanagari, Ge’ez, Georgian, Greek, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Latin, Malayalam, N’Ko, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tifinagh

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Oliver Häusle

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