A coherent typeface is an essential part of a coherent branding strategy.
— Bruno Maag
If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.
Each script has its own calligraphic and cultural history. It is more a question of matching different calligraphic styles to one another, without the features of one script dominating another.
I do believe that organizations can certainly improve lives by specifying better fonts, which of course has an effect on how you read your e-mail.
Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication; it can really connect people.
The Cyrillic and Greek scripts in particular have an alien beauty in their unfamiliar letterforms. Five weights of stroke thickness create subtle variations in light and dark that reflect the emerging and fading of the stars.
There isn't really a stylistic recipe for fonts to make them particularly suitable to be translated into different scripts.
The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
Type is your brand.
When we design for non-Latin, we always aim to create a rhythm and texture that is sympathetic so when you have the two scripts running side by side, they create, ideally, the same tonal value on the page.
