Graphical Pronunciation Emphasis Theory

Recently, I am doing a little research on letters and words. Which is commonly call typography. Typography, a study on letter, word, the shape of it the negative space and positive space a letter carry. But, my studies on letters and words, is going to beyond the meaning typography, pushing the boundary of it. Letters and words is more than just shapes and spaces.

Have you ever wondered, how you actually can recognize a Japan speaking Japan, or a Malaysian speaking Malay, or even someone speaking French, Latin and Spanish, although you may not know how to speak their language and yet you still can somehow recognize it.

I believe letters and words not only provide visual, it also provide sound in it. The way u pronounce a word.Due to the tones and pitch a person use on a language, we who don't know the language, will somehow roughly base on the sound of the pronunciation to know what language the person is speaking.When we talk to one another, we somehow tend to recognize the sound first before our mind start to recognize what word is that.For example, the word "friend".

Try to pronounce it! Try it a few times...You will realize that the emphasis of the pronunciation is at "FRI" then "END" is abit softer, in a musical sense, like a ghost note. But if u do it the opposite way, it sounds weird, not natural, it just don't flow.

I intend to combine this words pronunciation phenomenal into typography. Let a letter not only have shapes and space, and also have a emphasis graphically on the pronunciation.

Normally, when u read a word, you can recognize a word because of the shape it carries, the space it occupy. If you don't believe me, try it yourself!Simply jus write any word, or ask someone to write a word, ask that someone to carry half of that word. And you read it, most likely, 99%; you will recognize that word even half of it was covered.

So, by graphically show the pronunciation emphasis of a word. The word not only have shapes and space it also tell a person how to read it. I believe in a way, it will help a person to read more efficiently. This will work best on signs; it will make the signs look more convincing in pasting the message across.

My theory have not really been proven practically, I'm working my way towards it. Finding the right balance between the shapes/space and graphic emphasis. But, I believe it somehow will work out well. I still need to do more research on the pronunciation of words and do graphic tests and surveys.

I greatly appreciate those who had done my first, which I so call "GPE"(graphical pronunciation emphasis) theory survey. Look forward for your contribution in the future. Your respond is very important.

My 1st report on "Graphical Pronunciation Emphasis" theory.