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Portland graphic designer helps the Cherokee Nation update its language for the digital age
Mark Jamra created Phoreus Cherokee, the first commercially available and most complete typeface for the Cherokee language.
By Bob Keyes
November 29, 2015

Until recently, if members of the Cherokee Nation wanted to send a text message in their traditional language, they could do so only with a typeface that just partially captured their language. Now, they can send that text with all the nuance of the Cherokee language, expressed in looping, gestural glyphs that more closely resemble small drawings or doodles than letters from a Latin-based alphabet.

Mark Jamra is the reason why. The type designer from Portland is helping the Cherokee Nation adapt a writing system based on centuries-old traditions for the digital age.

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