Designing a Georgian Header

There are approximately four million Georgian speakers worldwide, so I am quite happy to represent my community by designing the first Georgian Alphabettes header.

Despite the relatively small size of the Georgian-speaking population, the script has a rich calligraphic history with significant developments over the centuries. The evolution of the Georgian alphabet has produced three scripts: Asomtavruli (5th century), Nuskhuri (9th century), and Mkhedruli (10th century). Over time, letterforms have transformed and shifted between scripts, allowing all three to be preserved and used in some capacity today. However, Mkhedruli is the primary script in modern use, which is why I chose to design the header with it.

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Font Reviews 2024: Adapter Georgian

Designed by Ana Sanikidze
Distributed by Rosetta Type
Font family: 2 styles (roman + oblique) and 8 weights. 16 static fonts + 1 variable font

This font review was originally written in French, a language spoken by approximatively 80 million native speakers worldwide. English version of the review below.

Adapter fait partie de la collection Type World, une famille de polices polyvalente intégrant l’arabe, le cyrillique, le grec, l’hébreu, le latin et le tamoul. Ana Sanikidze a été invitée à élargir la famille en créant Adapter Georgian Text, comportant 8 graisses allant de Extra Light à Black, ainsi que leurs italiques correspondantes. Fidèle à la philosophie d’Adapter, l’extension géorgienne offre un équilibre entre authenticité et fonctionnalité: des caractères proportionnels mais rationnels entre romain et italique.

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