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On #non-latin #cyrillic #modernist #typography
"Needless to say, that when it comes to non-Latin writing systems exercised in regions culturally and geographically distant from Europe the opportunities for typographic modernism were even more slim: for example in 1957 [...] Linotype was still trying to figure out how to adapt the forms of Arabic script to their machinery (and not the other way around, of course), which resulted in 'Simplified Arabic' design."
http://letters.temporarystate.net/entry/1/
