Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 08:41 -0700 10/11/01, John Jenkins wrote:
>
> >Both Cherokee and Deseret suffer from the fact that they were designed in
> >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... :-)
>
> My Everson Mono Cherokee is nice and clean.

I don't find it at the below website.

BTW the link "Typography and Scripts" perhaps should be called
"Bibliography of."

> >Meanwhile, it *does* bring up an interesting problem in script analysis --
> >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.
>
> And what about these Palms that make people use completely
> ahistorical ductus for many of their letters? This disturbs me.... ;-)

Be glad today's kids can even print. What need do they have for
handwriting?

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