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Vietnam. Whats Its Color: Find the complementary and primary color of any image. Tranh_Đông_Hồ_-_Cá_chép.jpg (400×622) 753-dh5.jpg (400×238) 7dxdanlon.jpg (577×443) M-ci-cht-tranh-ng-H.jpg (500×305) Vietnamese Fonts on a Macintosh. Use these instructions to begin typing in Vietnamese on an Apple computer.

Vietnamese Fonts on a Macintosh

These instructions will help you to install the proper Vietnamese characters on an iMac, eMac, PowerBook, Mac Mini, or Power Mac running Mac OS X. Actually all the fonts you need are already installed and you simply need to enable the Vietnamese font input method on the Macintosh. To write in Vietnamese on an Apple computer with Mac OS X, follow these instructions: Click on "System Preferences". The icon looks like a light switch next to an Apple in the dock as shown below: In the System Preferences window, click on "International" as shown below: In the International Window, click on the tab labeled "Input Menu" to see all the possible languages on the Macintosh.

As shown above, check the box next to "Vietnamese". Now open any word processor. In the upper right of the display, look for the US flag (or your country's flag). The keys shaded in light green are tone marks. Vietnam calligraphers help welcome Year of the Snake. Thousands of people visited Hanoi's Temple of Literature on Sunday, the first day of the Lunar New Year, seeking to buy hand-drawn traditional calligraphy as part of the holiday celebrations.

Vietnam calligraphers help welcome Year of the Snake

Lunar New Year calligraphers in Vietnam sell hand-painted characters, often done by special request, to passing homeowners who believe the uplifting words will help bring them good luck in the Year of the Snake. With huge, sweeping brush strokes, bespectacled calligraphy professor Cung Khae Luoc early Sunday painted the character for "Peace" in glossy black ink onto traditional Vietnamese paper made from bamboo and tree bark. Luoc, a calligrapher who specialises in Vietnam's ancient Chu Nom script -- a pictorial language similar to Chinese which is almost obsolete in modern Vietnam -- told AFP he was doing a brisk trade on the first day of the Year of the Snake. The calligraphers sit and paint side-by-side for more than 100 metres along the tree-shaded temple wall where their finished works hang.

The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World. The bảohouse - Color Connotations in the Vietnamese Culture. Global Color Meanings Red – hot, blood, spicy food, squares/cubes, stop/danger Orange – energy, thirstYellow – stimulates memory, gold/money, enlightenment, sunshine, caution Green – comfort/quiet, spring, new beginnings, rest, road information, safety Blue – cool, trust, dependable, circles, salt, hospitalsPurple – calming, royalty/religion, flowers Pink – sweet things, innocence, temporary calmBrown – stability, food, earth White – pure, innocent, youth, clean, surrenderBlack – dignity, formal, death, mystery Basic Vietnamese Color Meanings Red – happiness, love, luck, celebrationYellow – wealth, prosperity, royalty, happiness, changeGreen – jealousy, lustBlue – calmness, hope, growth Purple – nostalgia, sadness, fragility, tenderness White – purity, death, the endBlack – evil Special Vietnamese Colors Golden yellow is associated with the background color of the flag of Free Vietnam (a golden yellow flag with three horizontal red stripes).

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