> Well, almost any.
>
> Returning to the list after an absence of a few
> months, to share an idea I've toyed with off and on
> for a couple of years: The idea that a single font
> could be designed that could be used to display and
> print a huge variety of alphabetic characters,
> syllabaries, pictographs, runes, petroglyphs,
> hieroglyphs, and squiggles.
>
> With such a "universal" font you could invent your own
> writing system for you conlang and would not need to
> create a font for it, because the "tinker toy font"
> would have all the pieces you'd need to display your
> unique writing system. PLUS, your web page, and other
> conlanger's web pages, could display any conlang
> writing system as long as the viewer had the single
> universal Tinker Toy font.
>
> This one single font could display Roman, Greek,
> Devanagari, Korean Hangul, etc. etc.
>
> The simplest version, for runes and crude pictographs
> and alphabets is this one:
>
http://fiziwig.com/tinkerfont.html
>
> A more complex, maybe even TOO complex version that
> displays detailed characters is here:
>
http://fiziwig.com/tinker.html
>
> I need to find a usable font making program so I can
> try out the simple version and get a feel for how it
> could be improved upon. Maybe the best solution lies
> somewhere between the two extremes in the above two
> links.
>
> --gary
>