NEW ARMENIAN FONTS AS A RESULT OF 2009 GRANSHAN INTERNATIONAL TYPE DESIGN COMPETITION

Tert
Nov 11 2009
Armenia

>From October 15-19, the 2009 Granshan International Type Design
Competition jury reviewed entries submitted to the competition,
which was held for the second time.

The aims of the competition are the development of electronic type
design and further international recognition. According to the
competition’s website, 54 works were submitted from 12 countries in
such categories as Armenian text fonts, Armenian school textbook and
children’s book fonts, and Armenian traditional text fonts, to name
a few.

Head of the Department for Creating and Keeping Armenian Fonts of
the National Book Chamber Edik Ghabuzyan was among the five prize
winners out of 6 nominations.

"The fonts we used before the start of Granshan competition, Arial,
Times and others, were the Armenian variants of the Latin fonts with
the same names, but they couldn’t be considered Armenian fonts. With
this competition, we began [to compile] a large stock of pure
Armenian fonts," said one of the winners of the 2009 competition,
Head of Chair of Graphics of the State Academy of Art Ara Baghdasaryan.