ISWA Thumb Decision

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 17, 2007

First, here are the two different thumbs...one at a diagonal and one  
tight against the side of the fist:

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Second, I think considering the ISWA as a font makes sense, since it  
will be under the OFL License, which is a Font License.

So the ISWA 2008 shall simply be the standard that others can base  
other typeface designs on...

Therefore I am not going to change any of the current used  
handshapes...I will keep my style ;-)

I will leave the hands as they are, with their current thumbs,  
including the A hand, since there are thousands of people who have  
seen that handshape and seem to accept it...

But Stuart, if you feel the A hand should be like the second example  
above, then another "typeface" or version of the iSWA can be done by  
someone else (perhaps you, Stuart ;-), and you can place the change  
for the A hand in that font...but the two different versions of the A  
hand, will have the same ID number, so we have not created a new  
symbol with a new ID number...just different typefaces...

And the same goes for the Parkhurst fonts for the different thumbs ;-))

Thanks for your input, Stefan and Stuart - It was very helpful!

Val ;-)
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