Tiro Typeworks on Nostr: nprofile1q…n58hj nprofile1q…5mrzw As a literate user of a native language, you ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqlgkdrtaluqaanq4wpkft7zyumsmkerallt765kmt8lxzq5pp438q2n58hj (nprofile…58hj) nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqce5jx6nre94yr7dulmyyh5q5erstt3hseedw2660df42wh2ktaeq25mrzw (nprofile…mrzw) As a literate user of a native language, you have a native writing system, and that certainly gives you advantages in learning other writing systems within that script, especially for related languages with similar phonetic mappings. But there are characters used in some writing systems that you have likely never seen before, which you can’t read and about which don’t know things that a that a type designer needs to know, e.g. how do they vary idiomatically, in different styles of text? what do the cursive forms look like? with what other characters do they occur?

Consider the first time a non-German designer approaches an ß. Being a native reader of English or French etc. doesn’t help much, even though this is a Latin script character.