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Re: A Font for Pictographs

From:Jeffrey Jones <jsjonesmiami@...>
Date:Saturday, December 13, 2008, 13:42
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:36:54 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...>
wrote:
> > The idea is that you could have many different alphabets or pictographs on > a conlang website using only one single font that users could download and > install. That way they could look at your web site, and if you added new > pictographs they wouldn't have to download a new font, since the one font > is capable of displaying all your pictographs, even ones you haven't invented > yet. > > It seems that in my multi-year project cycle the idea bubbled to the surface > again and I created a True Type font that can be used to draw pictographs, > alphabetical characters, syllabary symbols, or whatever. Basically, a > certain "squiggle" is assigned to a particular key stroke, with the squiggle > being drawn in the lower half of the grid space when the lower case key is > used, and in the upper half of the grid space when the upper case version is > used. > > You can look at some samples, and instructions (and download the ttf font > itself if you're interested) at <http://fiziwig.com/glyph/fragz01.html> > >I call the font Fragmentz (fragz.ttf) > > >--gary
Nice idea! I tried it out. Unfortunately, IE6 has trouble displaying the assembled pictures at the bottom: it looks like there's an extra shift to the right with each character. However, the first 9bgB comes out OK except for being cut off a little on the right. Firedfox had no trouble except for the cut off. Opera completely refuses to use the font. Jeff