Re: cyrillic?
From: | Chris Bates <christopher.bates@...> |
Date: | Tuesday, August 12, 2003, 18:42 |
I personally don't like cyrillic because its angular as Barry said... I
like scripts that are all curves and dots like arabic writing. I don't
like the roman alphabet that much either.
>Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...> writes:
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>>i would like to know who thinks cyrillic looks better the the roman
>>alphabet?
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>I like cyrillic a lot, but it's a lot more "domineering" than the Latin
>alphabet, due to all the angles a lot of its letters have, especially in
>sans serif fonts. A lot of the lower case letters just look like the
>capital forms. There is a kind of elegance to the more times-roman style
>fonts, and the cursive looks quite fancy.
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>But overall, i think the Latin alphabet has it for simplicity, and
>softness (unless you write in CAPS THEN IT LOOKS AS DOMINEERING AS
>CYRILLIC :)).
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