![]() The Devanagari base character height and the Latin ascender height are equal Latin capital letters are shorter than the Devanagari characters, and the Latin x-height is set rather high. Poppins’s letters are practically monolinear, although optical corrections have been applied to stroke joints where necessary, to maintain an even colour in text. ![]() Just like the Latin glyphs, the Devanagari forms in Poppins are based pure geometry (particularly circles). Each font includes 1014 glyphs, including all of the unique conjunct forms necessary for typesetting Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc. The Poppins family includes five weights, from Light through Bold. It is likely the first-ever large Devanagari family in this style that has been brought to market. Poppins’s Devanagari design is particularly new. Many of the Latin glyphs - the ampersand, for instance - are far more constructed and rationalist than in previously released geometric typefaces. An open source family supporting both Devanagari and Latin, this typeface is an internationalist take on the geometric sans genre. Poppins is one of the newest comer to this long tradition. Geometric sans serif typefaces have been a popular design element ever since these actors took to the world’s stage. Modernism was truly international in scope only three years after the founding of the German Bauhaus school, several of its painting instructors were already exhibiting their work in Calcutta. Many people outside of the US black community have adopted the term thanks to its popularity in hip-hop music and culture, though some appropriations of the term have been used as a joking or stereotyping reference to black speech.During the 1920s, Central European type foundries joined the modernists movements in art and design. Black women in particular use the phrase to compliment other black women’s fashion, where the term may also draw on the use of pop in fashion and design for a color, accessory, style, or look that pops, or “jumps out.” Poppin’ is most commonly associated with US Black English. This use of poppin’ puns on the sense of “What’s happening/What’s up?” as well as pop a cap, a slang phrase for “shooting someone.” In present day, people can use this phrase casually without knowing the origin of it. In the late 1990s in New York, members of the newly formed United Blood Nation (UBN) began to say “What’s poppin’?” with expectation of a response of “5 poppin’, 6 droppin’”- that is, five UBN members (represented by a five-pointed star) shooting and six rival gang members (Crips, represented by a six-pointed star) dropping dead. Since then, poppin’ has become a popular phrase to describe anything new, fresh, or happening. Google searches for poppin’ hit their all-time high in July, 2007 from users searching for these songs as well as the meaning of the term after hearing the songs. In these songs, poppin’ conveyed “happening, bustling with excited activity,” and extended to a kind of “effortless cool.” In quick succession, three major hip-hop artists charted songs with poppin’ in either the title or the hook: Chris Brown’s “Poppin’,” which reached #15 on the Billboard charts in March, 2007 Lil Mama’s “Lip Gloss,” which peaked at #16 in June, 2007 and T.I.’s “Big Things Poppin’ (Do It),” which hit #9 in August, 2007. The breakout of poppin’s popularity as a modern slang term came in 2007. That usage has survived somewhat into modern day hip-hop music, as poppin’ pills or bottles is common slang for doing recreational drugs or drinking recklessly as a result of having too much money to know what to do with. Poppin’ had taken on a meaning in black slang by the 1940s, when it referred to “lavish and reckless spending,” the action of the verb apparently likened to the ready energy of such spending. Poppin’ is a clipped form of popping, dropping the final G, a common feature of African-American Vernacular English (AAVE).
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