From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Fri Feb 11 2005 - 15:46:49 CST
Doug Ewell wrote:
> This might be a good time to point out that Cherokee is not required to
> be displayed with the quaint, "Modern No. 20"-style glyphs shown in the
> Unicode charts, with their wide serifs and high contrast between thick
> and thin strokes. This was simply the font style that was in vogue
> during the 1810s and 1820s, when Sequoyah modeled his letterforms after
> printed Latin.
A slight correction. The familiar forms of Cherokee type are actually quite different from
Sequoyah's original forms: they represent the typographic interpretation of his forms by
the foundry that made the first Cherokee type, which has been largely copied by subsequent
font makers.
John Hudson
-- Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com Currently reading: Library: an unquiet history, by Matthew Battles The peasant of the Garonne, by Jacques Maritain
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