Expanded my Combax further. I wanna hear your thoughts while I wait for a response from the Cherokee Nation. E-mailed them the below images earlier today



PS. I took what I could from
As far as I gather there is still no solid norm for the letterforms. Getting the book would be so expensive and tedious where I am at, with no guarantee it would arrive, that I did not bother (it takes shorter for items to travel to the state border then from there to the capital. Ouch!!

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The two letters that look like a Sütterlin S also seem indistinguishable, other than that the second one has an unsightly blot near the exit stroke.
EDIT: I mean QUI and TLU, apparently.
Took the time to elaborate that without step by step online instructions the likes of Polish Diacritics - How to? and VietnameseTypography type designer eager to help them out are bound to work from more or less flawed models, and could very well be fine-tuning wrong letterforms. i.e. the whole matter is a Catch-22 to perpetuate bad designs for their script.
Still no reply. Maybe the e-mails on the screen in the YouTube lecture have expired... I can't know.
I also clear that this design is a part of a much bigger set, involving almost all Latin and Cyrillic glyphs, and this is to be interpolated across around 8 weights + corresponding italics; that I could not allow myself to distribute wrong Cherokee glyphs and will leave them out completely if they don't get reviewed in time before the release deadline, which should be around May if all goes smooth. Maybe I was bit too enthusiastic about the whole matter, could also be that there is something going on over there, or that an e-mail got lost... No idea.
Cherokee lowercase, really!? Oh…
Now this is going to be double fun. Not to speak of the upcoming Cherokee blackletter releases. I thirst for innovations.
An interesting variation might be a stylistic alternative which takes the characters back to Sequoyah's original script version of the characters.
The lowercase is not just a smaller version of the UC, as every lc before it, it is more written out and more cursive, the letterforms change, sometimes there are even variation in the same letter. Please check the video I posted above for more information - it features a hand written letter in Cherokee. The whole process is very much similar to watching Greek or Carolingian minuscule develop - in our lifetime. And this includes a strong neophobia, which explains perhaps why things move so slowly.
I realize now it was a too heavy investment, but the money went for a good cause, so that's that.
A meeting in heaven, a meeting of equals.
Here is a list of all the diacritics that may be used:
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I got a short answer from Mr. Erb and which left me no wiser. Truth be told, I have no great desire to develop such fonts any longer
Here are a few articles on it:
http://www.mainepublic.org/post/portland-type-designer-finds-particularly-meaningful-project-cherokee-font
https://www.pressherald.com/2015/11/29/portland-graphic-designer-helps-the-cherokee-nation-update-its-language-for-the-digital-age/
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/a-typeface-designed-to-revive-the-endangered-cherokee-language-typetuesday/
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A designer is supposed to answer questions laymen don't even [have to] realize exist.
Also feel free to contact me off-list. I have a couple of other thoughts that might be useful.