Thursday, October 11, 2007

Rate Your Tamil Script!

A brief South Indian typography lesson from John Murdoch, Classified Catalogue of Tamil Printed Books (Oxford: 1865). In some ways I think I prefer the "BAD" to the "MEDIUM"—the former's blotchy, but the spacing is more even.
eu met rr SB ir t&r i_ ra Quasar BAD MEDIUM Qwguun u jD sS 7a O Ol NATIVE FEINTING ix GOOD

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