Gor Jihanian

type designer | typographer | researcher Armenian typefaces for a global context

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

🎛🎚 Morphing through design space using a physical midi controller
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
↔️↕️🔄 Mixing axes to control horizontal position, vertical position, and rotation

🍭 Multiplying colors w/ css mix-blend-mode

🔠 Featuring the v-font WHOA by @scribbletone

[Typotheque @typotheque]

We have over 100 responses so far, but to be able to make solid conclusions, we need have 100 more. Do you know someone who speaks Armenian? Ask them to fill the form! 🙏

[Typotheque @typotheque]

To better to understand Armenian readers preferences and legibility of certain type design choices we prepared an online survey. Do you speak Armenian? Please take part, or help us spread the word.

https://t.co/TEbPniKvBG

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@justvanrossum @blackfoundry For those that run into a similar issue, you need git clone the repo (see issue) and not simply download the zip.

Got it working!

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@justvanrossum @blackfoundry Gotcha!
All was going well until error during pip install -e . posted on github https://t.co/CAC9CMCxi1

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@justvanrossum @blackfoundry I've got some Python PTSD so trying not to ruin my old machine (Mojave). After I download and install the python-3.10.7-macos11.pkg and Install Certificates.command...running Python --version still shows 3.9.6 – how do I switch it?

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@justvanrossum The joke gets less funny (if it ever was) when phone and laptop use completely different default fonts.

Also, Chirp should support more scripts.

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@justvanrossum Side note:
I was replacing with Armenian «օ» to attach to the question mark «՞» so there shouldn’t be any extra space added. Works fine while typing then breaks after posting.

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@simoncozens @hhpapazian Might as well include it.

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@hhpapazian @simoncozens Without Mijaket having its own Unicode, I think U+002E (Full Stop) is a better option design-wise (shape + spacing) and accessibly-wise (easy to type on any keyboard).

The lack of basic punctuation is among the many issues of Noto Armenian.

[Granshan @GranshanConf]

We congratulate @gor_jious and @typotheque for their GRANSHAN award.

All winning entries can be seen here: https://t.co/5FNI5D7kii

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@hhpapazian @ken_lunde Double whammy

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@hhpapazian @ken_lunde The Armenian keyboard I’ve become familiar with duplexes (mostly) logically with corresponding Latin punctuation.
։ = opt + .
՝ = opt + ,
՚ = opt + shft + u
՞ = opt + ?
՜ = opt + 1
՛ = opt + ՛
֊ = opt + shft + ‘

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@hhpapazian @ken_lunde Keyboards are certainly a culprit. There are all sorts of keyboard layouts for Armenian (both Western and Eastern flavors) that are awkward, confusing, and incomplete.

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

@ken_lunde I come across these input errors/bad practices often and at times within the same paragraph.

Also seen U+007E ~ TILDE used instead of the U+055C ՜ ARMENIAN EXCLAMATION and U+00B4 ´ ACUTE used instead of U+055B ՛ ARMENIAN EMPHASIS

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

The original typeface «Neutral» by Kai Bernau of @at_cb can be seen here:
https://t.co/b0O49E4zOT
https://t.co/hQN7yXkOCv
https://t.co/bmFWDuq6cN

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

🥉«Neutral Armenian» receives 3rd prize in the category of Armenian text typefaces at the 12th Granshan Type Design Competition 2021/22

Currently unreleased — will be available in the @typotheque Armenian type collection

[Gor Jihanian @gor_jious]

Artwork featured on the poster:
«Hékiat III» by French-Armenian artist and painter, Taline Zabounian

More of Taline’s work can be seen here:
https://t.co/RDGXUESf3G

[VachJ @vacheji]

My grandfather was the only one out of 13 siblings to survive the #ArmenianGenocide The rest perished in Constantinople.
4 years after the start of The Armenian Genocide, in his early twenties, he was already publishing books like this.