Q: What were your first thoughts when you were approached about the Doodle? Did you draw inspiration from anything for the artwork?Ī: My first thoughts were… Dream project!įor the artwork, I was most inspired by geometric shapes and Spanish-speaking countries’ flag colors. Q: Why was this topic meaningful to you personally?Ī: I'm a typography lover, so it felt special to celebrate a character so rarely used in languages other than Spanish. Below, they share their thoughts behind the making of this Doodle: Today’s Doodle was illustrated by Barcelona-based guest artist Min. Today, the letter Ñ appears in more than 17,700 Spanish words, carving out a fundamental role within the language and Hispanic culture. In 2010, the United Nations declared April 23 a day to annually celebrate the Spanish language, one of the most commonly spoken in the world. This also works for other accent characters (e.g.
In 1803, it was officially entered into the Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary, and in 1993, Spain passed legislation to protect its inclusion in computer keyboards on the grounds of its insuppressible cultural significance. Your customizable and curated collection of the best in trusted news plus coverage of sports, entertainment, money, weather, travel, health and lifestyle, combined with Outlook/Hotmail, Facebook. Hold the letter N/n on your phone’s keyboard, and a small pop-up will appear showing different accent marks. Thus, “ annus,” Latin for “year,” evolved into the Spanish “ año.” They combined the two figures into one and scrawled on top a tiny “n”-a symbol now known as a ” virgulilla” or tilde-to signify the change.
While hand-copying Latin manuscripts, these scholars of the Middle Ages devised a plan to save time and parchment by shortening words with double letters. The Ñ’s story started with 12th-century Spanish scribes. The only letter in the Spanish alphabet that originated in Spain, the Ñ is not only a letter but a representation of Hispanic heritage and identity as well. Today’s Doodle artwork, illustrated by Barcelona-based guest artist Min, commemorates the consonant (pronounced enye). Today’s Doodle artwork, illustrated by Barcelona-based guest artist Min, commemorates the consonant Ñ (pronounced “enye”).