Salamanca, Spain, 1963) is a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain. Stanier from Essex University (UK) has created the following metafonts: ams1, cherokee, cypriote, dancers (the "Dancing Men" code of Conan Doyle), estrangelo (ancient Syriac language), georgian, goblin, iching, itgeorgian, ogham (found on ancient Irish and pictish carvings), osmanian (twentieth-century font used in Somalia), roughogham, shavian, southarabian (for various languages circa 1500BC), ugaritic (ancient cuneiform alphabet). It was developed by members of the Mandaean faith of southern Mesopotamia to write the Mandaic language for liturgical purposes. The Mandaic script is thought to have evolved between the first and second century BC from either a cursive form of Aramaic (as did Syriac) or from the Parthian chancery script. The designer writes: The font represents the first alphabet in the Mandaic language-its name is A-Atha which means "he came". For non-personal use, please send an email to The list of his typefaces:
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He created the cfi family of cuneiform metafonts, with signs given in New Assyrian notation. The association of Assyro-Chaldeans in France offers an archive of Assyrian fonts, including CarloAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), GabrialAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Issa-&GilianaClassic (1997), Nisibus (1998, a font modified by Tony Khoshaba), SPEdessa (1998, based on Leiden Peshitta, Estrangela). TYPE DESIGN INFORMATION PAGE last updated on
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