The Inuktitut syllabary has been developed in the 1840’s in order to write Canadian Aboriginal languages. It was a collaboration between Mistanaskowew , an aboriginal who saw the signs in a hallucination, and James Evans a missionary, who refined the system based on linguistic knowkedge. The result is a very efficient writing system, which assured a high rate of literacy. In 2018 David Bennewith wrote and designed “A mixture of semantics, poetry and marketing. Approaches to the Typeface Design of Inuktitut Syllabics" (a contribution to Fredrik Ehlin and Hinrich Sachs editorial framework Fog Friend Font) which was published by Humboldt Books, Milan.
