According to Wikipedia, it started from a Russian convention in the 17th century to distinguish Steppe Kazakhs from the Cossacks of the Russian Imperial military, which probably comes from the same r… (View Post)
By the way, the Cyrillic ә for Kazakh, slated to be written as a' in the Latin version of the alphabet, is not a schwa sound despite using the identical glyph (though a different code point as it's a… (View Post)
This question intrigued me and I ended up doing a quick internet search on it for Korean typefaces, which represent a kind of a parallel history to the development of type in Europe. In Korea the typ… (View Post)
If you include CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) operations, the average will certainly rise. Korean type design usually requires large teams; one major foundry (Yoon Design) has 69 employees, although… (View Post)