Eye Magazine

The ideas and assumptions behind ‘global’ or ‘multi-script type’ raise complex and nuanced issues that have taxed both type designers and graphic designers for years. Current technology and the demands of communication and ‘branding’ have thrown up debates about the creation of readable documents, signs, packages and websites in which two or more different scripts are obliged to coexist. In this article, designers from different corners of the globe discuss some of the concerns and contradictions that inform the making and setting of multiple scripts with Ferdinand P. Ulrich [EXTRACT]