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

On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Gary Shannon wrote:

> --- 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.
Quite cool! It reminds me of an online service I recently heard about
which was text-based, but it was possible to overlay characters on
each other. People developed some pretty creative symbols that way. I
wish I could remember what the service was called.