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Qalam, a mailing list about the world's writing systems.

Alphabets, ideographs and hieroglyphs; calligraphy, typography and fonts; i18n, character sets and input methods; Morse, Braille and sign language; literacy, history of writing and invented scripts. These are just a few examples of on-topic subjects.

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Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo
... And I'm not in love with how the continents are not foreshortened as they approach the horizon. One of the US TV news departments made a rotating globe
Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 6:32 pm
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Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo
From right to left, of course! -- Peter T. Daniels grammatim@... From: Michael Everson <everson@...> ... [Non-text portions of this message
Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 12:36 pm
 Peter T. Daniels
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Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo
... It is rather alarming that the globe is spinning the wrong way, however. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 12:19 pm
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Re: Modern bilingual commercial logo
The oddest thing is the "serif" at the foot of the lam, corresponding to the left leg of the n. I also like the rotating transparent globe. -- Peter T. Daniels
Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 12:03 pm
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Modern bilingual commercial logo
This company's primary languages are probably Arabic and English. Their logo is an interesting combination of Arabic and roman letters, designed to look
Posted - Fri May 11, 2012 8:35 am
 Nicholas Bodley
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