What test or control words are commonly used in different languages and scripts? I've found this
discussion about control words for lettering, but not for different languages and scripts.
Any suggestions?
LatinEnglish
handgloves
Hamburgefonts / Hamburgefontsiv
adhesionCyrillic Russian
Нобельфайк
Greek
Καλημέρα
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Then when I want to test word structures or “sturdiness” of the font I fetch words from the Long German Words twitter account.
Otherwise I write quite a few random words while I tweak rhythm and proportions but nothing particularly fixed — what are you looking for, pangrams? or just words from a language to see the texture? Impallari Testing has some sentences in various languages under the tabs “Latin” and “World scripts”.
But my question is not exactly about words or expressions for type specimens (I prefer to find different words for each particular typeface), but words that are useful to evaluate typefaces during the design process. Or even to compare them afterwards.
For instance, if I see some printed stuff, or digital, with the word "Hamburgefontsiv" I can easily recognise that it belongs to a type design project. Does it happen in other languages? I can't think of one in Spanish, but probably because I don't design type, I use it.