Re: Cherokee readers

Peter T. Daniels skribis:

>
> Michael Everson wrote:
> >
> > At 21:39 -0700 2004-12-01, Muke Tever wrote:
> > > > There seems to be just about _one_ standard Cherokee font; almost

all

> > > > examples of it look just about the same.
> > >
> > >If you lack something to triangulate from, the glyphs used in Everson

Mono

> > >Unicode are quite distinctively different from the norm, being

essentially

> > >sans-serif with strokes of uniform weight.
> >
> > Thank you. I think.
>
> Do you have a display of them? It sounds like a somewhat unCherokee
> notion. Or did you use Sequoyah's handwritten forms? I remember Zapf's
> as Optima-like, with very subtle shadings, but the one place I've seen
> them was in a very expensive book (and it didn't include the entire
> syllabary).

Actually Zapf's forms have fairly long serifs, so maybe not
so much like Optima. You probably saw them in the book
_Hermann_Zapf_and_his_Design_Philosophy_ published
in 1987 by the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago (on
page 201). I paid fifty dollars for my copy when it was first
published which didn't seem too expensive to me.

I believe the man who commisioned this font was Walter
Hamady, a private press operator in Wisconsin.

--Ph. D.