Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> It would have been even more polite to simply state the author, title,
> and page nos. of the book in question, so we might determine whether it
> was a project of the size and complexity of The World's Writing Systems.

John D. Berry (ed). _Language Culture Type: International Type Design
in the Age of Unicode_. Graphis Press 2002. 320 pp.

So about a third the size of WWS. I don't know how "complexity" in the
relevant sense can be judged without examining both works. It is the
printed product of the bukva:raz! 2001 type competition.

Partial TOC:

The first half of the book contains well-written essays on typography from various typographers from around the world:
Voices, languages and scripts around the globe / Robert Bringhurst
Unicode, from text to type / John Hudson
ITC Cyrillics, 1922- / Maxim Zhukov
How do the Japanese read? / Akira Kobayashi
An approach to non-Latin type design / Fiona Ross
A primer on Greek type design / Gerry Leonidas
Zvi Narkiss and Hebrew type design / Misha Beletsky
Type ramblings from Afrika / Saki Mafundikwa
Arabic type and typography / Thomas Milo
Civil Type and Kis Cyrillic / Vladimir Yefimov
Pickled herring and strawberry ice cream / Adam Twardoch
The other half of the book contains typographic visual examples and work
from famous typographers in color and B/W.


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