A sweet poster created by Michael Ciancio about the lack of diacritical marks in the English language. These are a range of accents and other symbols which indicate that the sound of a letter is modified during pronounciation. These are rare in English but relatively common in other languages. Often the only time we use them is when writing borrowed words such as café. Many standard fonts include some letters with the accents already positioned above or below them but sometimes you have to create them yourself. To do this you can position the diacritical mark after the letter and then kern it back until it is in the correct position.Labels: diacritical marks, michael ciancio, posters, typography
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