Mark E. Shoulson wrote:
>
> Any of you qalamities out there fairly comfortable readers of Cherokee?
> Or friendly with someone who is? I'm playing around with some
> font-design, and I made a set of the Cherokee syllabary. There seems to
> be just about _one_ standard Cherokee font; almost all examples of it
> look just about the same. I drew mine by hand and didn't trace the
> "standard", so I'm curious how it looks to eyes that are used to reading
> it. I could just mail blind to some Cherokee website, but I'd rather
> try someone familiar first.
>
> Just wondering, no urgency...

Hermann Zapf, one of the preeminent typographers of the 20th century,
was commissioned to design a Cherokee font by a private individual in
Wisconsin(!). It can be seen in at least one of the books about him, but
the owner of the font seems never to have cast the type, used it, or
allowed anyone else to use it.
--
Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...