The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I am just learning to notice the different colors of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment.
In most scripts, one or two characters have a lot of colors.
This dark brightness that falls from the stars.
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
When you read something in script form, there are some subtleties that stand out with far greater gravitas than sometimes what you see on screen.
When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
If stars behave in an erratic fashion, it's called 'colorful,' as opposed to, 'Well, maybe there's a problem there.'
I learned just recently, in fact, that a lot of people who read do not form a visual image from what they're reading. They just don't. They follow the events and get the resonance with the language, but they have only a vague, general idea of what the characters look like.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
There isn't really a stylistic recipe for fonts to make them particularly suitable to be translated into different scripts.