Flickr Pools can be a great resource for delving deeper into a visual theme or style and the Indic & Indian Scripts Pool is no exception. At least here in the US, the Latin Alphabet is pretty the only game in town when it comes to design so it’s easy to forget that their are whole other character sets out there. And while I’ve never encountered a project that called for any of these, it’s definitely inspiring to see such fluid characters and layouts.
From the Pool description:
“Indic scripts are Brahmi-derived scripts, This includes scripts used outside India, like Tibetan, Sinhala, Thai, Khmer, Burmese. Is this group for Indic scripts, or is it just for scripts used in India? If it’s the latter, then Arabic would count but Sinhala wouldn’t.”
Awesome….
Here is a nice blog focusing on this sort of design: http://www.hindirinny.com/
feelin’ that peacock illo
nice one
I found the same thing in China, the versatility of their characters is incredible.
Don’t forget the characters from south Indian languages which are absolutely different. Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada..the big four Dravidian languages.