Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of UnicodeJohn D. (ed.). Berry Language Culture Type grew out of the first international type-design competition, the 2001 bukva: raz!, whose goal was to promote global cultural pluralism, interaction, and diversity in typographic communications. The book lavishly presents the winning entries, along with information about each typeface, its language, and its designer. A series of essays gives context for the interplay of types and languages in the world today -- including the attempt to mesh all existing scripts into a single digital encoding system called Unicode. It also delves into the specific issues around developing typefaces for the many linguistic cultures in the world, from the various Cyrillic letterforms to Vietnam's ancient ideographic script. |
Contents
Voices languages and scripts around the globe Robert Bringhurst | 3 |
Unicode from text to type John Hudson | 24 |
ITC Cyrillics 1992 Maxim Zhukov | 45 |
How do the Japanese read? Akira Kobayashi | 62 |
A primer on Greek type design Gerry Leonidas | 76 |
Zvi Narkiss and Hebrew type design Misha Beletsky | 91 |
Type ramblings from Afrika Saki Mafundikwa | 107 |
Civil Type and Kis Cyrillic Vladimir Yefimov | 128 |
Pickled herring and strawberry ice cream Adam Twardoch | 148 |
RAZ | 159 |
The jury | 165 |
raz | 171 |
Contributors | 367 |
Common terms and phrases
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