Here is a sample:

http://www.dezcom.com/weimar/speakmoreslowly.pdf

I tested my font “Weimar Plakat 1923” using the phrase “Please speak more slowly” from the Omnoglot site. It even has Klingon!

ChrisL

This is very useful! Thanks.

Be warned though: based on what I see in the Armenian -three spelling mistakes and two suspicious [lack of] capitalizations- it probably needs some serious proofing.

You know where I’ve found the same text in-admittedly far fewer-
languages/scripts? The little battery-safety manual in boxes of Lego!
Plus it’s non-religious (unless you’re a member of the Order of Alkali).

hhp

What’s the Alkalinian bashing all about?

A struggle for the soul of America is under way.
The intensifying assault on the Alkalinians should be taken as a sign.

peace

No, no, no, not the Alkalinians. They’re a timid, peaceful people.
I’m talking about the Alkaloons, a tribe whose members have pillaged virtually every town and village between Upper Waziristan, Ingushetia, Baluchistan, and Trans-Dniestr, not to mention the eternally troubled Republic Formerly Occupied Ruthlessly By The Enemy, for one week short of 15 centuries today.

hhp

A little wine and a brief period as a Situationalist - it’s a dangerous mix…

peace

I love dogma. It is so malformed that a simple find and replace can do wonders…

peace

”...Be warned though: based on what I see in the Armenian -three spelling mistakes and two suspicious [lack of] capitalizations- ...”

Sorry Hrant, my meagor spell check never would have caught those :-)

ChrisL

Yes, it is too bad it is a biblical quote but at least it deals with language as a subject albeit in a naive way.

ChrisL

Hello Chris,

I opened your PDF in Acrobat 6.0, Dutch language and got this strange thing:
A mistake in the PDF of in the font?

Nice typeface though!

Pieter

if you use the german texts, please use the one named “Luther (1984)” - its by far the most modern german. and mind: in switzerland, we speak/write german but dont use the Sz-letter (at all, i dont even have one on my keyboard).

and if you need german texts, http://www.newmediadesigner.de is a good ressource (the story “Wortberge” always worked well for me).

Pieter,
The “strange thing” is actually why I made the page to begin with. I was testing my font to see if it could be used for every Latin based language. As you can see, Azurbaijani has a character which I did not put in the face yet. The upsidedown “e” (forgive me, I don’t know the real name for it) is set in Adobe Garamond Premier Pro so I could see what it was supposed to look like. There were also several Vietnamese glyphs which were not included, too many to show.

ChrisL

Thanks Thierry, that is a good resource too.

ChrisL

”...Order of Alkali”

I took Hrants comment as a joke based on alkaline batteries being a pun with the Lego “Battery Safety”.

ChrisL

>too bad it is a biblical quote

Why is that?

As this story is probably the first recorded effort to explain the diversity of languages, it seems particularly apt for this exercise.

“…Order of Alkali”
Diametrically opposed to the H’acidic :)

> Why is that?

Because preferential treatment of the bible is offensive to most of the world?
Some people even find the bible and/or its reverence offensive - an affront
to good, context-rich judgment.

> Diametrically opposed to the H’acidic

:->

hhp

“Diametrically opposed to the H’acidic :)”

I really got a charge out of that one :-)

ChrisL