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In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualized differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyze the world as a complex made up of many parts. In scientific cosmology the world or universe is commonly defined as ’the totality of all space and time; all that is, has been, and will be’. Theories of modality, on the other hand, talk of possible worlds as complete and consistent ways how things could have been. Phenomenology, starting from the horizon of co-given objects present in the periphery of every experience, defines the world as the biggest horizon or the ‘horizon of all horizons’. In philosophy of mind, the world is commonly contrasted with the mind as that which is represented by the mind. Theology conceptualizes the world in relation to God, for example, as God’s creation, as identical to God or as the two being interdependent. In religions, there is often a tendency to downgrade the material or sensory world in favor of a spiritual world to be sought through religious practice. A comprehensive representation of the world and our place in it, as is commonly found in religions, is known as a worldview. Cosmogony is the field that studies the origin or creation of the world while eschatology refers to the science or doctrine of the last things or of the end of the world.

Based on science and research, but written with the mastery of a skilled hand, Dash is a handwriting typeface system that makes full use of variable expression. After carrying out research for over a year into educational handwriting models, and documenting the evolution of handwriting in the Western world, we have developed a typeface that not only uses the collective characteristics of handwriting as it is taught in schools, but also emulates how handwriting evolves over time into a personal expression of an individual.

Dash handwriting typeface, design concept

Design concept

While Dash is rooted in the accepted models of writing, it also deviates by degrees from the standard models — which is precisely what turns the concept of collective handwriting into real individual expression. Dash is a connected script typeface that comes in four writing speeds; it takes advantage of both the universality and personalisation of handwriting by enabling an increase in the speed of writing and testing the limits of legibility.

Dash, Four speeds of writing

Four speeds of writing

Dash not only comes with different writing speeds, but it also enables a gradual change of expression via sliders. For the user, this means that the speed of writing can gradually be increased, turning a generic model of writing into a highly distinct and expressive kind of handwriting, whereby the letters are stripped down to their essential forms. Dash also allows for variation in the intervals between letters, and this too can be changed by the user. Finally, as is expected from today’s fonts, the weight of the type can be controlled, simulating different writing pens.

Dash, variable expression

Variable expression

To make this personalised writing even more specific, we have studied how forms of letters change based on local preferences. For example, a Spanish writer crosses the minuscule q, while an Italian writer prefers a simplified form. Czechs write the minuscule t without lifting the pen, while an English writer lifts the pen and crosses the t. Dash respects these differences, and the font is programmed to switch automatically to the forms of letters based on the language being used. This observation of local preferred forms of writing led to an in-depth study, <a href="https://www.typotheque.com/articles/the-familiarity-effect-in-the-perception-of-handwriting">Familiarity Effect in the Perception of Handwriting</a>, researched by the Typotheque in-house cognitive psychologist Héctor Mangas Afonso.

Dash, local writing preferences

Natural in every language

Achinese

Acoli

Adara

Afar

Afrikaans

Ahtna

Alago

Albanian

Alekano

Aleut

Anaang

Ao Naga

Arabic, Chadian Spoken

Aragonese

Aromanian

Awak

Aymara

Azeri (Cyrillic)

Azeri (Latin)

Baka

Balinese

Banda, West Central

Bangwinji

Bapuku

Bari

Basque

Batak Toba

Bedawiyet

Bemba

Bena

Bench

Benga

Bikol

Bilen

Bini

Bislama

Blackfoot

Bokobaru

Bosnian

Breton

Buginese

C’Lela

Cahungwarya

Catalan

Cebuano

Chamorro

Chichewa

Chiduruma

Chiga

Chimborazo Highland Quichua

Chokwe

Chuukese

Colognian

Comorian

Cornish

Corsican

Crioulo, Upper Guinea

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dawro

Delaware

Dikaka

Dutch

Ebira

Efik

Ekpeye

Embu

English

Esan

Esperanto

Estonian

Ezaa

Faroese

Fijian

Filipino

Finnish

French

Frisian

Friulian

Fuliiru

Gagauz

Galician

Gamo

Ganda

German

Gheg Albanian

Gikuyu

Gofa

Gourmanchéma

Greenlandic

Guaraní

Gusii

Gyele

Haitian

Hanga

Hausa

Hiligaynon

Hmong

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Con il sostantivo mondo si usa designare la totalità della dimensione in cui vivono gli esseri umani, comprendente tutti i suoi abitanti animati e inanimati, inteso anche come il loro luogo primigenio in senso cosmologico e filosofico, distinto dagli altri pianeti ed oggetti materiali o metafisici che costellano l’Universo. Si distingue dal concetto di Terra che ricopre invece il significato di mera entità fisica. In un contesto metafisico, esso può anche fare riferimento a ogni ambito, insieme o sfera globale in sé compiuta, esistente nella realtà o nell’universo. La definizione di mondo nella lingua italiana proviene dall’espressione latina locus mundus nella sua accezione di «luogo pulito, chiaro, visibile» (cioè «mondato»), ovvero quella porzione della Terra, ma anche del cielo, illuminata dalla luce e quindi visibile, identificabile e riconoscibile dall’essere umano. Ma in tale definizione è implicito in aggiunta anche il valore di «ornamento» e di «elegante» inteso come il luogo ordinato dove regna la bellezza, insito anche nel greco kósmos con significato di «ordine, ornamento, bellezza», contrapposto al chàos e che rimanda al pensiero pitagorico ellenistico.

Spanish readers prefer to write the minuscules ‘q’ and ‘z’ with a cross bar, use flowing letter ‘f’. When the text is language tagged, the correct forms of letters will be used.

Spanish preferred ‘q’

Czech and Slovak readers have a strong preference for a taller minuscule ‘t’ written without lifting the pen. When the text is language tagged, the correct forms of letters will be used.

Czech and Slovak preferred ‘L’, ‘t’

Portuguese and Norwegian readers have a strong preference for writing the number ‘9’ with a straight leg. When you language tag the text, this feature will use the correct form.

Numeral ‘9’ with straight leg

Swedish readers prefer simple form of ‘f’, that resembles printed letter. When the text is language tagged, the correct forms of letters will be used.

Swedish preferred ‘f’

French readers prefer not to cross their ‘Z’. When the text is language tagged, the correct forms of letters will be used.

French preferred ‘Z’ small cap

Dutch schools teach writing a disconnected number ‘8’. When the text is language tagged, the correct forms of letters will be used.

Dutch preferred forms ‘8’

Some languages, most notably Italian and Spanish commonly use cursive form of capital ‘A’. This stylistic sets replaces the default form by a cursive variant.

Cursive ‘A’

There are two writing traditions of writing capital ‘E’, writing it without interuption, which is the default option in Dash, or in a separated constructed way, as it is common in France, and Central Europe.

Constructed ‘E’

Default minuscule ‘r’ in Dash is written in a cursive fashion, as it is typical in most languages. There are some exceptions, for example German and British school teach children this constructed ‘r’ which is activated by this Stylistic Set.

Printed ‘r’

Nowadays, simple capital ‘S’ is almost universaly preferred, with exception of older writing models in North America.

Cursive ‘S’

In earlies part of the 20th century, the descending minuscule ‘z’ was a norm, and can be activated by this Stylistic Set.

Descending ‘z’

Looped minuscule ‘k’ is common across most languages, and simplified version is being used by some new writing manuals. This Stylistic Set will replace the default version.

Loopless ‘k’

Unlike most letters, minuscule ‘o’ has high connection to the following letters, resulting in an extra loop. This  Stylistic Set will replace the default version with a alternative without a loop, with low connections.

Loopless ‘o’

Unambiguous minuscule ‘s’ that replaces to the connected version.

Disconnected ‘s’

While this version of ‘p’ is prevelant in most languages, it is also harder to read. Use this Stylistic set to activate the open version.

Open ‘p’

A stylistic variation of the ampersand, replacing the default cursive ampersand by this one, which is more common in North America.

Alternative ‘&’ symbol

Contextual alternates that switch all caps typesetting to smallcap non-joining alternates

Non-joining caps

Most Typotheque fonts implement the Small Caps feature. In Adobe applications you can replace lower case letters with small caps using the keyboard shortcut (⌘ + ⇧ + H), or the OpenType menu.

Small caps

There are two methods of applying small capitals. The first one replaces only lower case letters with small caps. The second method, All Small Caps, also replaces capital letters with small caps. It also replaces regular quotation marks, exclamation points, question marks, slashes and usually also numerals with small caps variants.

All small capitals

Typotheque fonts contain various styles of numerals within one font. Proportional Lining Figures come standard in all our headline and newspaper fonts. Their proportions are specifically designed to work well with capital letters (for example, in headlines). The proportional Old-style Figures feature changes standard figures to Old-style Figures which work well in running text, as they have the same proportions as lower case letters with their ascenders and descenders.

Proportional old-style figures

To avoid confusion between a zero and a capital O, a slashed zero glyph is available in most Typotheque fonts. It is activated by an OpenType feature.

Slashed zero

Typotheque OpenType fonts already include a number of pre-designed diagonal fractions. The fraction feature allows you to create other fractions quickly and easily.

Arbitrary fractions

Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their superior alternates, which can be used for footnotes, formulas, etc. Superior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text.

Superiors

Replaces all styles of figures (old style, tabular, lining) and letters with their inferior alternates, used primarily for mathematical or chemical notation. Inferior characters are more legible than mathematically scaled characters, have a similar stroke weight, are spaced more generously, and better complement the rest of the text

Inferiors

In its most general sense, the term ‘world’ refers to the totality of entities, to the whole of reality or to everything that is. The nature of the world has been conceptualised differently in different fields. Some conceptions see the world as unique while others talk of a ‘plurality of worlds’. Some treat the world as one simple object while others analyse the world as a complex made up of many parts.

Con il sostantivo mondo si usa designare la totalità della dimensione in cui vivono gli esseri umani, comprendente tutti i suoi abitanti animati e inanimati, inteso anche come il loro luogo primigenio in senso cosmologico e filosofico, distinto dagli altri pianeti ed oggetti materiali o metafisici che costellano l’Universo. Si distingue dal concetto di Terra che ricopre invece il significato di mera entità fisica. In un contesto metafisico, esso può anche fare riferimento a ogni ambito, insieme o sfera globale in sé compiuta, esistente nella realtà o nell’universo.

En su sentido más general, la palabra ‘mundo’ se refiere a la totalidad de entidades, al conjunto de la realidad o a todo lo que fue, es y será. La naturaleza del mundo se ha conceptualizado de diferentes maneras en distintos ámbitos. Algunas concepciones ven el mundo como algo único, mientras que otras hablan de una ’pluralidad de mundos’. Algunos tratan el mundo como un objeto simple mientras que otros analizan el mundo como un complejo compuesto por muchas partes.

Le Monde est l’espace habité et connu par les différentes sociétés. Le mot renvoie à l’appropriation collective d’un espace dédié par une société, sa représentation renvoie à l’évolution des techniques de mesure. Le monde est le plus grand des espaces dans l’échelle des territoires connus. L’histoire du monde s’est construite progressivement et est le fait de découvertes.

Die Einschätzung, was zu diesem Begriff im Einzelnen genau gehört, ist abhängig von subjektiven und kulturellen Vorstellungen. Deshalb bestehen je nach individuellem Wissensumfang und besonders dem jeweiligen Kulturarealunterschiedliche Ansichten darüber, was unter Welt genau zu verstehen sei. Im Laufe der Zeit haben sich sehr viele verschiedene Verwendungen des Begriffs herausgebildet.

Dash Slow

Dash Slow Variable

Dash Casual

Dash Fast

Dash Fast Variable

Dash is a connected script typeface that comes in four writing speeds. This version is the fastest and most energetic style of Dash — challenging legibility, stripping down letters to their essential forms, and pushing expression to the extreme.