driven by trips to japan and continual frustration at being unable to read the language, michael johnson and his team at johnson banks have been trying to design a katakana typeface that has english phonetic sounds embedded: ‘phonetikana’.
characters from the phonetikana typeface
for example, UNIQLO in japanese is pronounced ‘yoo nee koo roh’ above are the four characters in phonetikana.
this is how ‘michael’ would look in the typeface.
‘big apple’
‘cheese’
‘doki doki’ (japanese for the ‘sound of my beating heart’)
‘baa + moo’
‘big in japan’
‘nee-koh’ – japanese for ‘smile’
‘koo-roo’ – japanese for the sound of something spinning
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Agreed, if you’re keen to speak Japanese… why don’t you just learn the language? Why make a hybrid form? Westerners can be lazy ; )
How much time to Johnson Banks have on their hands? Yet another, pointless, self-initiated, self-congratulatory project. much like the annual ‘April Fool’ effort.
Really interesting idea… but impossible to read down small! (Perhaps just learn the language).
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