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⊹ MOTHERTONGUE.OTF ⊹
AN INTERSCRIPTUAL TYPEFACE






1. Introduction
2. Construction
3. Source text: Poem  
 4. Showcase
 5. Exhibition
 6. Typeface
7. Acknowledgements
8. Bibliography
 9. Contact


This site presents the MFA project
in Visual Communication of
Veronika Larsson, completed in
2022 at Konstfack University in
Stockholm, Sweden. For further
inquiries, please email me.
Site typefaces:
Halibut, Junicode & Karla





1. Introduction
 2. Construction
 3. Source text: Poem
4. Showcase
5. Exhibition
 6. Typeface

7. Acknowledgements

8. Bibliography

9. Contact


This site presents the MFA project
in Visual Communication of
Veronika Larsson, completed in
2022 at Konstfack University in 
Stockholm, Sweden. For further
inquiries, please email me.
Site typefaces:
Halibut, Junicode & Karla




8. BIBLIOGRAPHY
FOOTNOTES:

1 Definition “Inter-”

2 Definition “Script”

3 Wikipedia: World Language
4 On Yiddish:
Minoritet.se (Swe)
ISOF: About Yiddish (Swe)
Jiddischförbundet (Swe)
What’s the difference between Yiddish & Hebrew?
Judar och Jiddisch (Swe)

5 The Hebrew Alphabet:
Chabad.org
 Britannica
Cursive Hebrew (Wikiwand)
Modern Hebrew pronounciation
The Yiddish Alef-Beys
“The Book of Hebrew Script” by Ada Yardeni

6 Chabad.org:
Jewish Calligraphy
Sofer: the Torah Scribe

7 Ligatures:
Scribendi
ILoveTypography
 Medium
Typography Guru

8 Wikipedia: Blackletter
1941: The Nazis Ban Jewish Fonts
Jake Rainis: Blackletter history
 The Story of Blackletter
Early Blackletter styles

9 “Biscriptual” by Niggli

10 Hebrew Calligraphy Tutorial
“Mastering Hebrew Calligraphy” by Izzy Pludwinsky



REFERENCE PROJECTS & TYPEFACES:

︎︎︎ Aravrit by Liron Lavi Turkenich
 ︎︎︎ Saris Typeface by Elsa Baussier
︎︎︎ Boogy Brut by Bureau Brut
+ Interview with designer Julien Priez
︎︎︎ Alna Typeface by Alff Rosine
︎︎︎ Creation of Art, Judiska Museet
︎︎︎ “Artistic Hebrew Type” Compendium
︎︎︎ Fontef: Hadassah-Friedlander
OTHER SOURCES:

︎︎︎ Alphabettes’ Mentorship Program
︎︎︎ DuoLingo: Yiddish
︎︎︎ A Short History of Calligraphy and Typography
︎︎︎ Omniglot – Writing systems
︎︎︎ Designing an Alien Alphabet
︎︎︎ How to Create a Fictional Alphabet
︎︎︎ EDGE: How does our language shape the way we think?
︎︎︎ Making Democracy Legible
︎︎︎ Languages as Symbols
︎︎︎ Wikipedia: Western calligraphy
︎︎︎ Medium: Western Calligraphy
︎︎︎ Interview, Job Wouters 2013
︎︎︎ NYTIMES: What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades
︎︎︎ GeekCalligraphy: Why Hebrew and English on the same page always looks terrible
︎︎︎ AIGA: Handwriting is Dying. What does that mean for design?
︎︎︎ Gotico-Antiqua Symposium 
︎︎︎ A Yiddish Cultural Dictionary
︎︎︎ What is a ‘Serif’ in Hebrew?
︎︎︎ Tablet Mag: The Jewish Type of Type
︎︎︎ On Simulation fonts
︎︎︎ Letterform Archive: Judaism and the Soviet Avant-Garde
︎︎︎ Yiddish Book Center
︎︎︎ Fontef Type Foundry
︎︎︎ Masterfont Type Foundry
︎︎︎ The Jewish Museum
︎︎︎ Mellanförskap (Swe)
︎︎︎ Språktidningen: Mellanförskapet (Swe)
︎︎︎ Södermanlands Nyheter: Vi måste prata om Mellanförskapet (Swe)
︎︎︎ Judaism and Visual Art
︎︎︎ Jewish Virtual Library: A Menorah and Micrography
︎︎︎ British Library: Micrography
︎︎︎ Typographic details in the Hebrew Bible