Font design and features for African languages

Denis Moyogo Jacquerye http://www.africanlocalisation.net/en/fonts Play (13min) Download: FLV | MOV | OGG | MP3

This presentation will discuss the requirements of orthographies for African languages in Latin scripts and shows how to implement them with modern fonts technologies. Good practices, mistakes and evaluation of fonts for African languages with high requirements will be discussed. The presentation will also showcase various font projects that are benefitting from the input, feedback and work of the Open Source community.

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