On: Web Design is 95% Typography

[lifeisstillgood]

Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated.

Typography for Japanese characters is fascinating - three different languages almost, sitting in the same sentence, the cadence of language reflecting in the angles or spacing, the possibilities are an order of magnitude more complex than English - and an order of magnitude more rewarding.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/esthet/3454734/ - beauty in calligraphy

http://www.kfstudio.net/himaji/ - cute fontface for Kanji

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?111 - a good primer

[batista → lifeisstillgood]

>Yes, and it will radically change as the web stops being English / Latin alphabet dominated.

It will never stop being English/Latin alphabet dominated for the English (Americas, Australians, etc) though.

So, it's not like english web designers will see any major change in their work, or english web users...

[lifeisstillgood → batista]

Well, I suspect we shall see words entering our lexicon from China - every right thinking 人 would agree :-)

[Avshalom → lifeisstillgood]

We've stolen a tremendous number of words with out adding arabic/hebrew/cyrillic/japanese/etc characters, I don't see any reason to assume we'll start with chinese.

[batista → lifeisstillgood]

Like in a Bladerunner/Neuromancer cross-culture like future. Maybe, maybe.

[pyre → batista]

Don't forget Firefly!

[lifeisstillgood → pyre]

I goram won't !