Digital Character Design of Diacritical Dcroat Mark
Maja Turčić, Tajana Koren, M. Rudolf · DAAAM International Vienna, Vienna 2011 eBooks · 2011
This article aims at contributing to the quantitative and qualitative discussion on the design of modern fonts by analyzing the Croatian and Vietnamese dcroat sign representing a unique case of typographic solution.The main issue is the problem of designing letters that are composed of a body and a diacritical mark and that are not present in other Latin scripts.The goal of a letter design is recognition, and diacritical marks must assume eigenvalue of the letterform from the font-family concerned.The following measurements of the dcroat character were conducted: thickness, vertical and horizontal positioning.In order to enable proper diacritical design and achieve legibility, most common practices were established by measuring geometry in different fonts and font-families.