Typophile

Caucasian Albanic

Andreas Stötzner0 votes

The font Kaukasia-Albanisch is now available for general licencing.

The Albanian alphabet is one of the ancient writing systems of the Caucasus region. It is said that is was created by Mesrop who is known to have also invented the Armenian alphabet. It was almost forgotten for centuries but rediscovered in the 20th century, namely on palimpsest manuscripts kept in the St. Catherine’s monastery on Mount Sinai.
In 2007 I had the honour and the pleasure to make the inauguration font for the edition of that source. This font was also used for the recently launched new Albanian block (10530) of Unicode. The new font now released is based on that encoding.

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Interesting! A link to where it's "available for generale licensing" could be perhaps useful ;)

Very cool work! I had heard about Caucasian Albanian, but had never seen any settings. It certainly looks like something Mesrop would have made. It might even help shed light on the initial renderings of Armenian, before it became Hellenized at the hands of scribes.

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Thanks for sharing!

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