CategoryCase Studies

Projects where I explain how the work was done.

When a Font Doesn’t Support the Language

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In a past project I had to typeset a document from English into Vietnamese. As soon as I pasted in the first line of text, I ran into a problem that comes up a lot with Vietnamese. Vietnamese uses accents that aren’t found in a lot of standard Latin fonts, so the letters that are missing from the font just show up as squares in InDesign. The source font simply doesn’t support the...

An Arabic Logotype Drawn from the Latin’s Own Strokes

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Logo design for Solitaire.

Solitaire, an upscale women’s boutique, needed one logo that worked in both English and Arabic. No Arabic font matched the English lettering, so I built the Arabic out of pieces of four Latin letters. The Project Solitaire serves both English and Arabic speaking customers, so the logo had to show both languages together on the storefront, labels, packaging and bags. The client wanted a...

Localizing an Animated Video with No Source Files

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A large pharmaceutical company needed its animated brand video in Latin American Spanish. The problem was that nobody had the project files anymore. The English source on the left and the Spanish on the right. All of the on-screen text was rebuilt by hand. The Project The English video runs about twelve minutes and follows a cast of animated characters. There’s on-screen text in nearly...

Jaber Maycid

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I’m a foreign language typesetter and graphic designer in Ottawa. Since 2005 I’ve typeset over 130 languages, including right-to-left and complex languages.

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