Sylfaen : Foundations of Multiscript Typography (2000)

by John Hudson.

In the autumn of 1997, I was hired by the Microsoft Typography Group to consult on the production of support materials for OpenType font developers working with multiple scripts and languages. The project was given the working title Web Resource for International Typography (WRIT). A year later, I had the pleasure of showing this work in progress at the 1998 ATypI Conference in Lyon, where it was well received by my colleagues in the type industry. Shortly after my return to Canada, Microsoft decided to put further development of this work on hold, so this paper, inevitably, lacks some of the enthusiasm I had for the project in 1998. It is difficult to remain excited about something which has been effectively cancelled, but at the same time I am happy to respond to the editors’ invitation to write something about the project for the Type journal, because I think the small team at Microsoft who worked on this project achieved something important. Perhaps I still hope that some day the project may be revived, even if in a different or more limited form. Certainly, I still believe that the ever increasing emphasis on internationalisation in software development, business and, of course, the Internet, requires a better level of support from font developers, and this in turn requires something like WRIT. [via]

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