<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<div>December 20, 2008</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2008, at 6:40 PM, Cherie Wren wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; 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><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Gerard's original idea was something more international-- so far all the suggestions come from ASL... Anyone know more Gestuno or something more all inclusive?<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><br>I only know ASL, and the most "iconic" sign I know would be the ILY handshape... it is the closest thing to being universally known in the US, among hearing and Deaf. Igt would also be simple enough to read at that tiny size.<br><br>cherie<br></div><div style="font-family: tahoma, 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Thanks, Cherie and Charles and Bill, for your input...</div><div><br></div><div>Attached are a few Favicons...one for an online encyclopedia site, and another a dictionary site...</div><div><br></div><div>It seems that using a letter from the Roman Alphabet is popular, like the W for Wikipedia, but no letter of the Roman alphabet is completely international, since people in Russia and China use a different way of writing ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>So a "picture" of some kind would be more international than an alphabetic character...and somehow the I LOVE YOU hand doesn't feel like it represents "SignWriting" to me...does it you? Maybe the very first symbol in SignWriting...the index finger with the white palm...that might be representative of SignWriting in general, not because it means anything but because it is the first symbol in the ISWA...</div><div><br></div><div>I have no idea what is best for a Favicon that represents all SignWriting of all sign languages in the world! If someone can design a good Favicon for SignWriting that we could all use for our sites, that would be great...</div><div><br></div><div><img height="38" width="378" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:A565525E-C795-4294-A94C-C6998A341EB5"></div><div><br></div><div><img height="34" width="264" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8E044B88-7434-437F-AC71-421D27EE4841"></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>