Collection 1 of fonts produced using The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.

William Overington

The following fonts have been used satisfactorily using the Paint program. They are also useful in PowerPoint.

ARTISTIC.TTF, Artistic_colours_and_materials

An experimental attempt to produce a font with a view to designating the symbols in it so as to produce a font with symbols for representing artistic colours and materials by first producing the font and the symbols, then devising the meanings, rather than the usual order of producing the font after devising the symbols and the meanings. The file is about 31 kilobytes in size.

The symbol which is a letter a in the Artistic colours and materials font could perhaps be used to denote the bronze material of sculptures, statues and art medallions.

PAINT_IN.TTF, Paint_in_blue_upon_vases

The Paint in blue upon vases font is intended for producing blue motifs upon white vases. The file is about 31 kilobytes in size.

SONGS_AB.TTF, Songs_about_Landscape

The Songs about Landscape characters are useful to add language neutral text to a graphic depicting a pleasant landscape. This font looks good in green, brown and other natural colours of a landscape. The file is about 31 kilobytes in size.

The Songs about Landscape font is also used in a web based simulation which readers might find of interest.

A partial simulation of a web based shop.

Readers viewing that page and becoming interested in the underlying system of conveying information between people who do not have mutual knowledge of a natural language may like to know of the following page.

The comet circumflex system.

That page is the introduction to the system and an index to the collection of documents about the system.

SWANS_FO.TTF, Swans_for_a_tapestry

These swans look good in white upon a background. The file is about 25 kilobytes.

TREES_FO.TTF, Trees_for_vases

This is a font intended to express the atmosphere of trees, some being blown in a wind, upon ceramic vases. The designs can look particularly good when the designs are used to produce the basic design for a graphic which is then coloured with green leaves at the top of the tree with various browns combined in the trunks. The lowercase letter e is particularly effective with dark green leaves. The file is about 31 kilobytes in size.

The following fonts are designed to be best using WordArt in PowerPoint in order to produce designs. Please note, however, that it is best also to produce the same letter in a text box, so that the width of the WordArt object can be adjusted manually so as to give the correct aspect ratio by aligning one image on top of the other, then deleting the text box version. These graphics look good at very large sizes, hundreds of points high.

COBALT_G.TTF, Cobalt_glass

A later font than the Pools of glass in ceramic font, the Cobalt glass font was devised with the idea of it being used to produce designs for slabs of stone fired terracotta clay, with channels cut into the clay and filled with cobalt blue glass. The file is about 28 kilobytes in size.

PHOSPHOR.TTF, Phosphorescent_galaxies

Graphics deliberately much wider than high, intended for use as art in broadcasting to widescreen televisions. The file is about 29 kilobytes in size.

POOLS_OF.TTF.ttf, Pools_of_glass_in_ceramic

The classic font devised with the intention of it being used to produce designs in slabs of stone fired clay, perhaps terracotta clay, with pools of glass fired into channels cut into the clay. The file is about 35 kilobytes in size.