Great Journey 🏍 Day 347
"When someone goes on a journey, he can tell a story." That's how this quote goes, or something like it, doesn't it? I would rephrase it: ...then he has much to learn / marvel / wonder at or sometimes despair over.
As typography fans and font experts (a little professional quirk that we enjoy cultivating), we love designing fonts.
Here in Georgia, we can only do one thing: admire them. Reading or even understanding them is impossible. While we complain about this at our weekly canteen chat via zoom, our colleagues enlighten us and send us enough information material. We learn:
1 There is a modern alphabet, Mchedruli, which is used extensively today. This does not distinguish between upper and lower case letters, but there is a Mchedruli majuscule script which is used for short texts written exclusively with majuscules. (Majuscule = capital letter)
2 The "old" script Asomtavruli is probably found on buildings and in old manuscripts, it originated around the 9th century and looks a bit like capital letters, capitals or majuscules. So we will find it in churches and monasteries, we suppose.
Then there is Nuskhuri, which is supposed to be a kind of cursive script. More like a cursive version, maybe like a handwriting? More likely to be found in very old chant and prayer books.
All three alphabets look completely different, the letters hardly resemble each other, if at all. And that's why we don't care which one we're standing in front of: we have no idea.
So we do the only thing we're good at: admire! And once again rely on Google Translate and my meagre knowledge of Russian. Because many people here still know Russian, after all, they were under Soviet control until 1991.
#youneverlearn #nixunderstand #typography #sobeautiful
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