From: Michael Everson
Message: 510
Date: 2001-11-10
>Both Cherokee and Deseret suffer from the fact that they were designed inMy Everson Mono Cherokee is nice and clean.
>the early to mid-19th century when American typography was not exactly at
>its best. I think as the pressure comes for type designers to include
>*everything* in Unicode in their fonts, we may see some interesting
>designs aesthetically acceptable in the 21st century. Maybe if Herr Zapf
>has a few spare moments... :-)
>Meanwhile, it *does* bring up an interesting problem in script analysis --And what about these Palms that make people use completely
>trying to determine what visual features of a writing system are truly its
>essential characteristics and which are just artifacts of the way the
>sample happened to be written.