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Gadget
Level 1: 10 points
Alltime Score: 3427 points
Last Logged In: April 30th, 2023
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Create A Personal Alphabet by Gadget

June 20th, 2006 1:26 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Create your own alphabet letters. The letters/characters should not resemble the characters in an existing alphabet. Post a key that shows your alphabet letters and how they translate into English (or another widely used language). Along with your alphabet, post a note written using your personal alphabet.

Bonus points given for providing your alphabet letters as a downloadable font.

Spent some time doodling. Scanned in the doodles. Did some googling to learn how to create fonts. Downloaded and installed eval version of FontCreator. Imported my doodles to font creator. Generated font. Imported font to system. Created a document using MS office. Applied my font to certain parts of the text. Took a screen shot. Did some minor cropping and saved the image files that you see before you.

Anyone care to decipher the text?

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personal alphabet

personal alphabet


note written in personal alphabet

note written in personal alphabet



5 vote(s)

5

r0ck c4ndy

 5

ambitron indifornian

 5

Burn Unit

 5

GYØ Ben

 5

Lincøln


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5 comment(s)

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posted by r0ck c4ndy on June 20th, 2006 6:08 AM

What's in Gadget's head?
Blood, crud, & primordial mud,
fun sun & a big watergun
dance, romance and tuct tape pants
That's what's in Gadget's head!

I like this, and after a few minutes I could almost read it. I don't like T though. Can you give that font to other's? I know some super secret spy's who would like to play with it...
What a great way to wake up, fabulous task.

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posted by Gadget on June 21st, 2006 12:09 AM

No way, Jose!

If I gave you the font, it wouldn't be personal and then I'd have to withdraw the submission. ;-)

Yeah... "T" didn't translate very well and I wasn't thrilled with how "U" came out either. It could use a bit of refining.

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posted by r0ck c4ndy on June 21st, 2006 12:25 PM

Selfish!
U was fine, easy to read in a sentence.

it's just a cryptogram
posted by Zoras Translator on July 5th, 2006 12:39 AM


I like the font, but ultimately it's too simple for me. It's just a crytogram, really. I think it would be far more of a challenge to create a set of characters that would substitute dipthongs and more complex elements of language. Not sure how many points to assign that task, however.

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posted by Cunning Linguist on July 18th, 2006 11:53 PM

For 25 points... I'm making a cryptogram...

Now for about 75...