While I was in Istanbul last year for the ISType conference, I got to sit with the organizers and the typographers that gave lectures in that conference. During one dinner, I was in a discussion with one of the organizers who is Italian about the involvement of numerals in type and I explained to him of the origin of Arabic numerals (0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9)
It was something geometrical depending on the number of angles formed by the lines, these lines were later on shaped to become the numerals we use today.
Here is a scan of the tissue I used to discuss with the organizer. He sent this to me not long ago. It truly is amazing.
It was something geometrical depending on the number of angles formed by the lines, these lines were later on shaped to become the numerals we use today.
Here is a scan of the tissue I used to discuss with the organizer. He sent this to me not long ago. It truly is amazing.
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