cowan@... wrote:

>
> 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.

That's the book I was telling you (two) about Saturday night.

Got it at Strand Annex for $40 (1/3 off) last summer.

> 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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