<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Open Font Library community,<div><br></div><div>Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm Vincent van Gerven Oei and part of my work relates to the arcane and penniless field of Old Nubian philology (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Nubian">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Nubian</a>). I heard about your mailing list from my friend Eric Schrijver.</div><div><br></div><div>Old Nubian was a language spoken and written around our Middle Ages, and there is small academic community that deals with this fringe language. The main issue in academic publishing about this language is the lack of a type face. Some years ago I tried to design a TrueType font, but that never really worked out.</div><div><br></div><div>My plan/suggestion appeals to anyone who would be interested to (help) design for the first time design a "real" and open-source font for this dead language, intended for the academic community (publications, journals) and the people protecting the heritage of the current Nubian population in northern Sudan.</div><div><br></div><div>There is an example of the script on the wikipedia site mentioned above.</div><div><br></div><div>The font would consist of </div><div>- 30 characters, no difference between upper and lower case, plus some additional "rare" glyphs. most of the characters look like Greek/Coptic uncials typical for the North African region, they are a bit "sharper".</div><div>- a supralinear stroke</div><div>- a supralinear dot for the vowels</div><div>- an optional set of ligatures</div><div>- punctuation marks</div><div>- a set of diacritical marks that are commonly used for philological publications, sublinear dots, brackets etc.</div><div>- keyboard layout consistent with free academic fonts like Coptic IFAO_Copte and IFAO_Grec</div><div><br></div><div>I already made scans of several documents, and a set of glyphs that I cut out from the documents and organized by letter/ligature, they only have to be traced, and "programmed"</div><div><br></div><div>As soon as we have a prototype, I could send it to some academic journals. I would have the opportunity to suggest the font for publication already this summer and hopefully I can promote with the other five scholars in the field.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance,</div><div><br></div><div>Vincent</div><div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><b>e</b>:</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="mailto:info@vincentwj.nl">info@vincentwj.nl</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><b>w</b>:</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><a href="http://www.vincentwj.nl">www.vincentwj.nl</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "><b>t</b>:</span></font><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; "> </span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; ">+31628639123</span></font></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></div></body></html>