Collection 2 of fonts produced using The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
William Overington
Copyright 2002 William Overington
Saturday 9 November 2002
The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is an interactive art work at http://alphabet.tmema.org on the web, created for Art21 and PBS by Golan Levin with Jonathan Feinberg and Cassidy Curtis.
There are available for free download from this present webspace a number of fonts.
These fonts, produced by William Overington using the Alphabet Synthesis Machine, are available for free download from this webspace by kind permission of Mr Golan Levin.
All of these fonts contain abstract characters which can be accessed using the letters A to Z and a to z. Each font also contains digits and punctuation, which are the same for every font produced using The Alphabet Synthesis Machine.
The following fonts have been used satisfactorily using the Paint or WordPad programs. They are also useful in PowerPoint.
Interesting designs, many starting with an impact then mellowing. This face looks nice as if producing a document.
Characters with an old manuscript look. This face looks nice as if producing a document. These characters have been used successfully with the Paint program yet are rather high on the body so might clip a tiny bit sometimes if used at huge sizes in WordPad.
CONSTRUC.TTF, Constructing_Castles
These designs can be useful to provide a background design if one is producing a graphic of a large initial letter, using Wordpad and Paint. That is, there is a plain field colour, on top of it is a character from the Constructing Castles font in one colour then on top of that is a letter from an ordinary font in a different colour.
DOLPHINS.TTF, Dolphins_and_Whales_AOq
Some abstract designs. If one tries these in WordPad in blue at a 400 point size, these look good. The character A is a little like a dolphin. The characters O and q could make stylised drawings of whales.
CRANES_B.TTF, Cranes_before_a_gibbous_moon
Stylised designs looking perhaps as if they are art painted by a calligrapher using a brush. Please try the letter G in WordPad in blue at a 400 point size. There is a stylised graphic of two cranes in an oriental garden in front of a gibbous moon.
LADY_M_G.TTF, Lady_M_greets_the_horse_L
If one tries these in WordPad in blue at a 300 point size, the sequence ML produces the painting "Lady M greets the horse L" and the sequence WZ produces the painting "Lady reading haiku to an elephant" on the screen.
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.
This is a set of five fonts, which were produced in the order listed.
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 other fonts in this series were named for various types of coloured glass. Perhaps some of the designs from the five fonts in this series could be produced in their respective colours inset into large panes of colourless glass in the sides of buildings, thereby allowing clear daylight to enter with an artistic flavour.
Copyright 2002 William Overington
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