Re: TECH: Fonts on the Web? (was Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation)

--- On Wed, 10/1/08, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:

> From: Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
> Adobe doesn't want you to take one of their
> fonts that you have to pay for and put it someplace that
> anyone can download it - for free - automatically! - just by looking
> at your
> page.

A while back, (Feb, 2005 through Oct 2005) there was a thread on the list about
my "does-everything" font. Just as a reminder, I came up with a single font
that could be used for any conscript, or any pictographic language whatsoever.
Each symbol of the font is a piece of a character. A string of characters in
ASCII builds a single character in the "Tinkerfont" (as in "Tinker Toy font").
Think of a seven-segment digital display on a digital clock, but with 50 or
more segments.

Here are my original pages that explain and illustrate the concept:

<http://fiziwig.com/glyph/tinkerfont.html>

<http://fiziwig.com/glyph/tinker.html>

Jean-François Colson created an improved version which is still available as a ttf download
here: <http://users.belgacom.net/bn130627/TinkerFont/>

Here's the search result on the listserv archives:

<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?S2=CONLANG&q=tinkerfont&s=&f=&a=&b=>

--gary

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