khmer script for mobile device
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Khmer Script For Small Devices
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Khmer Script
1. History of Khmer script
2. Challenging with new technology
3. UI Fonts
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History of Khmer Script
- found in 3rd century with
Vo Canh inscription during
former Champa kingdom
(Central part of Vietnam).
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History of Khmer Script
- It drived from
Pallava script with
more and clear
inscription found in
7th century (Srah
Keo of Thailand and
Angkor Borei of
Cambodia).
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History of Khmer Script
- The script was used to combine single-
syllable (Khmer original word) and multi-
syllable (Pali/Sanskrit loan words)
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Challenge with new technology
- From Pali/Sanskrit loan
word or multi-syllable
style, it makes body-
height of Khmer text
getting much larger than
Western European text.
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Challenge with new technology
- Printing industry came
to Cambodia in early of
20th century, in French
colonied period. Khmer
script started to enter
modern technology.
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Challenge with new technology
- Khmer letters were
used for printing with
metal type to keep
long vertical space as
in most of the
inscription, and
manuscript.
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Challenge with new technology
- Khmer computer font from Khek family, Om
Mony in USA and from Cinotec in Vietnam in
1990s can make body-height of Khmer text
getting much smaller than metal type, but it is
still larger than Western European text.
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UI Fonts
UI font is designed to reduce the overall body
height of text, and allow Khmer to have
descender and ascender-lines closer to other
scripts. It also allows their use in UI
components where vertical space is a
premiun.
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UI Fonts
-Khmer UI of Windows Phone
-Noto Sans KhmerUI of Nexus 5
-Hanuman UI of Samsung Android phone
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UI Fonts
Microsoft Windows Phone Samsung Galaxy S4 LG Nexus 5
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UI Fonts
Microsoft Khmer UI
Noto Sans Khmer UI
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UI Fonts
Why do we need to create UI fonts?
-Hamornize with English text.
-Need more info display on small screen.
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UI Fonts
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UI Fonts
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UI Fonts
OpenType features
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UI Fonts
How to do?
-Learn from hand writing style.
-Learn from banner design.
-Some old inscriptions also try to make vertical space shorter.
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UI Fonts
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UI Fonts
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Question?
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