Chris Skillern: Thoughts from a Cherokee Type Designer

Lecture and Q&A with Cherokee font designer, Chris Skillern.

Chris Skillern is renowned in the international design community for his work designing typefaces for the Cherokee syllabary. Recent projects include designing a custom font for the Cherokee-language dub of The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power, and contributing to the Indigenous North American Type Project for the Dutch type foundry Typotheque. He has also collaborated with XYZ Type on custom projects for the London Stock Exchange Group, and releases fonts under the banner of his own type foundry, Tulsey Type.

He has presented his work at conferences and universities across the US, and we are pleased to welcome him back to his alma mater for a public lecture at The University of Tulsa.