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Salty Pete
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Create A Personal Alphabet by Salty Pete

July 26th, 2006 1:14 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.

The ones that are supposed to be hard seem easy, the ones that seem easy are always hard.

I've always loved the IDEA of making fonts, but I've never done it before... I tried a number of times, but never got things that I liked or they ended up being too much like english. Also, font creation software is kind of primitive. And then, as the icing on the frustration cake, when talking to my roommate about my most promisting font idea, he suggested an amazing site http://www.omniglot.com and while there, I saw that someone else had actually already made an alphabet/font based on the idea I'd come up with. ....
At any rate, I think this dont is fun. It's of limited usefulness, in terms of communication, but there is a narcissistic pleasure derived from writing things with ones head as the letters...
The "m" and the period are definitely my favorite "characters".

- smaller

m

m


a quote in my new font

a quote in my new font


the whole thing

the whole thing


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All the letters, in order.

All the letters, in order.



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posted by star5 on July 26th, 2006 1:34 PM

is there a note written in your alphabet?

yep
posted by Salty Pete on July 26th, 2006 8:01 PM

image 2 is the note written in the alphabet...

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posted by star5 on July 27th, 2006 2:27 PM

oh. then you can't really read whole alphabet down below. even clicking on it and looking at it bigger.. i like the idea, but hard to decipher...

finally
posted by Salty Pete on September 19th, 2006 2:21 PM

I added an image of all the letters....