Re: Cherokee readers

IMark E. Shoulson

>
> 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...

I'm not a Cherokee reader, but I would like to see your
font. I've done about half the characters for a couple
of different fonts of Cherokee myself, mainly because
the "standard" font is so crappy looking. It looks like a
copy of the first metal type font used 150 years ago.

--Ph. D.