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Just received this from a friend of mine, asking for some critique.
Honestly - I can't read it. Can anyone of you?
I like the attitude, like it's something of a medieval piece of text, something like that. Anyway, it looks odd.
What about it, please?
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16 Jun 2006 — 6:28pm
CRAZY. I can't make heads or tails of it beyond thinking it says
ingillicisingging
inisilnägincicicjing
cicliidggcigidcdsc
inglncigincicjing.
which is probably just too obvious. :)
--jim
17 Jun 2006 — 6:18pm
Maybe this is somewhat more accessible:
17 Jun 2006 — 7:45pm
I got this far:
(Would help to know which language it's supposed be. English?)
_etwasineene
ntsin_en_ag_e
_at_ee_e_osc
_en_e_ag_e.
Someone smarter should take over...
18 Jun 2006 — 2:56am
You're smart. The places you left open, are just those letters which i changed a bit, that is to say i replaced the dotted ascenders into regular ones:
h - d - b
Also the x is different in the second sample.
Eventually, i wanted to create a readable bitmap font, in the smallest grid possible.
(well, the first sample isn't readable at all without introduction, i know, but it was just a false topic start).
This font requires a maximal grid of 7 x 5 (h x w), seems quite small to me.
There is, by principle, no meeting of horizontal and vertical lines, in order to keep the letterforms 'open'. (that's why i changed the shape of x).
By the way, the first sample is medieval Dutch; the first 2 lines of Van den Vos Reynaerde (Reynaert the Fox).
18 Jun 2006 — 5:41am
Oh, I see. I thought the dots were meant to be diacritics.
Speaking of tiny bitmap fonts, one of the smallest I've ever seen was KRN by Tilman. It was only 3 (three!!) pixels high. Unfortunately, it's no longer available on his website http://tint.de/
It looked like this:
23 Oct 2006 — 2:45pm
I need a text transcripted... just a stupid font someone wrote to me shouldnt be too hard but i dont know how.. here it is
╖♫¿ö♥ôå♀╖±ƒ░FÑôÄ█σU`♥ƒÆ░☻♫|¼
1 Nov 2006 — 12:44pm
Can't make anything of it. It's encoded script, I suppose, not a readable font.
15 Nov 2006 — 7:40am
I like this font, Ringo & the second version is definitely readable.
It's also nice to see I'm not the only one who uses squared paper for a grid ;-)