Re: Cherokee readers

Ph. D. wrote:

>
> 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.

How many books sold for $50 in 1987? That's like saying $50,000 was not
an excessive price for a Mercedes-Benz.

The "serifs" are integral, distinctive parts of the characters, so they
have to be there (and thus shouldn't be considered serifs).

Speaking of serifs, last spring I came across a _reprint_ of Fr.
Catich's book at Strand, used, for $25 -- a far, far lower price than
the original was sold for in 1978 or so (there was a presentation about
him, and it, at the Chicago Calligraphy Collective at the time).

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

So why did he never use it for anything, or allow anyone else to use it?
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...