Jesse Chisholm's Cherokee Font Comparison

The purpose of this page is to compare the Cherokee fonts (that I know of) against each other to see which style you like. For seeing the Font's keyboard layouts, go to my Keyboard page. For information on the various fonts (that I know of), go to my Which Font page.

The left most column is the name of the Cherokee syllable.

The second column is a GIF image of that Cherokee syllable.

The third column (labeled Cher_Sound) should look the same as the left most column, if you have the Cher_Sound font available.

Columns 3 through the end (the ones in maroon) display the Cherokee syllable in the named font, if that font is available.

NOTE: Just because you have a font installed, doesn't guarantee that it is available to your browser.

NOTE: There are two fonts named Cherokee, you can only have one available at a time, so at least one of these columns will look wrong.

NOTE: The font Cherokee (CNO) does NOT contain the glyph for "nah". It does contain four glyphs that are not represented in the Cherokee range of UNICODE.

`      (accent grave) A special accent character
1      The entire word "tsalagi"
2      The entire word "osiyo"
3      The entire word "wado"

NOTE 1: In the Cherokee Arial font, There are the following errors:

The glyph for "O" is reversed left-right from what it should be; as is it looks exactly like "YI".
The glyph for "U" has a closed loop, and properly should have an open loop on the right.
The glyph for "HV" should have a central tall loop, not just a vertical line.
The glyph for "NE" is too rounded and would do better with the current "DO" glyph.
The glyph for "DO" is upside down.
The glyph for "TSI" looks too much like a small "k" and not like a small "h" with a side hook.

I have sent a note to the Font Author (António Martins) and when a new version of the Cherokee Arial font is available, I'll update this page.

NOTE 2: In the CherokeeLS and TsalagiInterText fonts, The character that is represented by  or  Will NOT display in the browser. The browsers treats that character as a soft-hyphen (an optional place to split a word), and it is therefore invisible. These fonts aren't really intented for the browser, but rather for a PostScript printer.