Dear List, I am happy to report that the publication >decodeunicode — Die Schriftzeichen der Welt< is out now and available from publisher Hermann Schmidt Verlag here in Mainz, Germany. A team of three people worked on it for more than one year.
After 60 pages of a general introduction to Unicode in the German language, you will find 430 pages of printed code charts of all 109.000+ Unicode 6.0 graphic characters. We sorted them by the English block names in alphabetic order, so that, for example, all Cyrillic blocks can be found next to each other. We printed the 70.000+ CJK characters in the same size as the other characters, but used 50 grams per square meter lightface paper for these 320 pages, so that the entire weight of the book is only 1,9 kilograms. The code charts are composed with 66 different fonts. Because we believe that >serif< fonts are not the best way to present the essence of the letter form, we tried to find as many >sans serif< fonts possible. In this way, it is easier to compare the forms in terms of the basic grid of the strokes. Also, there are 98 pages of interesting, special, funny or odd characters, with one character per page. These were selected by our team as a way to give access to laymen to some of the more interesting and unusual Unicode characters. At the end of the publication you will find a forty-page list of all known scripts by Deborah Anderson of SEI, UC Berkeley, sorted by 12 criteria like timeframe, speakers, etc., based on various sources, including CLDR data. All not-yet-encoded scripts, a total of 111, are shown with one line of sample text. This sums up to 656 pages, printed in three spot colors and black. You can find the publication here: http://www.typografie.de/product_info.php?products_id=1421&language=en or here: http://www.amazon.de/Decodeunicode-Schriftzeichen-Welt-Johannes-Bergerhausen/dp/3874398137 more images are here: http://www.slanted.de/eintrag/decodeunicode-die-schriftzeichen-der-welt Best regards, Johannes
