Font Experimentation
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dewlineCross-posted from the Artblog...
I am nothing if not either prolific or a wannabe polymath.
Specifically, a font inspired by pre-1985 "Kryptonese". One of the side projects I've mentioned over at my Other Blog has been experimental font design, inspired by the comics of years gone by. as compiled by E. Nelson Bridwell, with the notes passed along to Al Turniansky by the late Rich Morrissey.
I'm about ¾ of the way to completion on the letter-glyphs, fully done on the numerals and punctuation. The letter-glyphs are one of the tough parts, numbering 118 in all. Check this site if you have any doubts. It's what I've been using as reference for this project.
The other potential headache is this: the rules of "Bridwellian" punctuation dictate that the "open parentheses" equivalent must be directly over the first character inside the parentheses. "Close parentheses" symbology is placed under the last character in the parentheses-equivalents. Underlining-equivalent has its own symbol, as a quick referral to the chart on the other end of the above link will show. Not being a professional typographic designer, I must admit to being somewhat stumped by this issue.
If you want to try out what I've got in place so far, here's the font. Right-click to save the font, and please scan the guts out of it with whatever security software you're using before you install it. Just because I've been careful doesn't mean you shouldn't as well, right?
I'll upload a PDF chart to show what goes where and which symbols represents which sounds ASAP.
I am nothing if not either prolific or a wannabe polymath.
Specifically, a font inspired by pre-1985 "Kryptonese". One of the side projects I've mentioned over at my Other Blog has been experimental font design, inspired by the comics of years gone by. as compiled by E. Nelson Bridwell, with the notes passed along to Al Turniansky by the late Rich Morrissey.
I'm about ¾ of the way to completion on the letter-glyphs, fully done on the numerals and punctuation. The letter-glyphs are one of the tough parts, numbering 118 in all. Check this site if you have any doubts. It's what I've been using as reference for this project.
The other potential headache is this: the rules of "Bridwellian" punctuation dictate that the "open parentheses" equivalent must be directly over the first character inside the parentheses. "Close parentheses" symbology is placed under the last character in the parentheses-equivalents. Underlining-equivalent has its own symbol, as a quick referral to the chart on the other end of the above link will show. Not being a professional typographic designer, I must admit to being somewhat stumped by this issue.
If you want to try out what I've got in place so far, here's the font. Right-click to save the font, and please scan the guts out of it with whatever security software you're using before you install it. Just because I've been careful doesn't mean you shouldn't as well, right?
I'll upload a PDF chart to show what goes where and which symbols represents which sounds ASAP.
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Date: 2006-11-11 08:15 pm (UTC)Re: font
Date: 2006-11-11 09:20 pm (UTC)I've got to admit that I've learned a lot by trying to do this, and I'm not sure that I'd've learned all of the same lessons from working with any real-universe, Earthly-derived language(s).
I'm almost certain to learn some different lessons with any real languages, though...
You had a chance to look at Omniglot.com (http://www.omniglot.com/) at all?
Re: font
Date: 2006-11-18 07:42 pm (UTC)Invented Languages and Translations
Date: 2006-11-18 07:54 pm (UTC)And now you've got me wondering if she'd like a writing system designed to go with her invented language...