Adam Twardoch Dialogue among civilizations: An emphasis on the cross-cultural aspects of type and typography
The variety of diacritic characters used in European languages causes a lot of trouble to typographers. The political changes of 1989; and the introduction of the Unicode standard have opened new possibilities for typography but also added complexity to what was already complex enough: typeface design. Polish is just one of the multitude of languages that are written in Latin script and make extensive use of marks and accents. Yet it can give a good example
of the problems which type designers can expect when adding diacritics. I will try to show how they can try not to serve pickled herring with strawberry ice cream