Re: Tinkerfont - Any con-alphabet you want it to be

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 13:33:56 -0800, Gary Shannon <fiziwig@...> wrote:
> Tinkerfont
>
> I was building a font for my silent con sign language
> by grabing bitmap pictures of the letters from the
> Times New Roman font and cutting and pasting bits and
> pieces, like bodies, ascenders and descenders, serifs,
> etc., and reassembling those pieces into new
> characters.  Then I thought I would use a font utility
> to turn my bitmap pictures into a real ttf font.
>
> Then it occured to me that it would be neat to have
> what I'm calling a "tinker toy font", or "tinkerfont"
> where each ASCII letter on the keyboard would not
> represent a whole character, but only some piece of
> the character.  For example, suppose "A" in the
> tinkerfont drew a left-side vertical ascender, while
> "D" drew a right-side hooked descender, and "o" drew a
> circular body while "k" drew a 'u' shaped body.  Now a
> Roman lower case 'b' could be drawn by typing the
> letter group "Ao ".  "A" would cause the ascender to
> be drawn and "o" would draw the circular body attached
> to that ascender.  The space indicates that the letter
> is complete and would move to the next letter.
> Likewise, the lower case Roman 'g' would be typed as
> "Bo ".
I think this is freakin' awesome! I can't wait to see a final product.

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