Hello from the studio. Here’s what we’ve been thinking about, making and reading this month.
Bilingual type pairs
Pair typefaces by colour and texture, not by family name. Set a paragraph in each script, squint and adjust until the greys match.
Line-height rules
Bangla needs more room: we start at 1.7 for body text against 1.5 for Latin, and never letter-space it.
Font picks
A short list of Bangla typefaces we trust for interfaces, with notes on weights, hinting and licensing.
Until next month — the Alphure team.