I make serious fonts to help my computer programming. I also like doing conceptual things with fonts, like making them overlap to build shapes, making letters represent different things and building optical illusions of lines that are not there.
Personal URL | https://thisstack.wordpress.com |
Fontstructing since | 15th April, 2013 |
Fontstructions | 163 shared, 5 staff picks |
Shared Glyphs | 18296 |
Downloads | 1923 downloads made of this designer’s work |
Comments Made | 386 |
The Roman alphabet has far too many letters. 9 letters can be represented by combinations of others. This font resoves that problem. Letters replaced: FJKQVWXYZ, Letters used to replace them: BCDEGHIPSU, Other Letters: ALMNORT. Regarding V and B, instead of replacing V with BH, I could replace B with PV (which would be better).
Now that I have the set of letters down to 17, they can be stored in Hexadecimal. So the final alphabet is ABCDE.GHI..LMNOP.RSTU..... Punctuation - 13 symbols: ,-`':()<>!?|. 2 slots left over for other stuff. The space has stuff in it. Do I want that?
There are 32 characters - 17 letters and 12 symbols, a space and two empty slots.
Current 5 bit values:
(is there any way to get rid of the space between each item in the list below?:)
00000 space
00001 a
00010 c
00011 d
00100 e
00101 g
00110 h
00111 i
01000 l
01001 m
01010 n
01011 o
01100 p
01101 r
01110 s
01111 t
10000 u
10001 v
10010 ,
10011 .
10100 ~
10101 `
10110 '
10111 ?
11000 !
11001 (
11010 )
11011 :
11100 |
11101 TBD
11110 TBD
11111 TBD
Yet another attempt to make a narrow programming font. Designed to accentuate the diagonals even though it's narrow. But then I got carried away with the little balloons, so it looks a bit odd at tiny sizes. Still readable though.