“Glyphs are hiragana, katakana, and maybe some other junk.”

Look out Neo, there’s a new console jockey in town.

tagged: Matrix symbols

This little app here is a kool way to find new symbols.

It’s how I found this guy:
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Not enough interest.

So we need more volunteers to make names. The work-for-donations thing doesn’t work. I received only $1.

We only had one donation for $1.

No more Kool Writing Team.

Sorry.

Do you love looking for new unicode symbols to mix and match, to write your friends’ names in new ways?

1. ☼ⓟⓙ☼ P╯ C▲sSi
2. $1 per name
3. M,T,W and 10 names/week
4. Myspace pre-tested.
5. mypaypal@someaddress.com

More buzz about @font-face, which should be all the rage when Firefox 3.5 is officially released:

Typography on the Web is basic and dull. A startup called Typekit will fix it. – By Farhad Manjoo – Slate Magazine

With @font-face, we’ll finally see custom fonts on the Web—fonts designed to convey a specific tone or emotion, to create distinctive publications or styles, just like in print.

The article also predicts some lucky fonts will go viral. That’s already true now with pipey letters.

Pipe letters are fixed-width and therefore render around the web with predictability, although line-height is still an issue. What remains to be seen with @font-face, will popular social networks encourage experimentation or not? Innovations in typography due to @font-face flourishing chould breathe new life into Myspace, as Facebook, Twitter block all CSS, linebreaks, etc.

Already there is talk about licensing fonts on a per-domain basis which could keep a font from going viral. Typographers able to devise and distribute catchy fonts for free (sans licensing) would gain notoriety and traffic, but to a degree that depends on support from Myspace.

Also, if we can’t use @font-face “inline” (I don’t know yet.) that would discourage casual use:

For example, let’s say someone wants “kool” symbols of cats, dogs, whatever. People will use this if I can say, “Here, cut and paste this one line of code.”

But if trying new fonts requires connecting “style” references in disparate sections of code, this confuses people, and you won’t see as much adoption, creative implementation by non-specialists.

Maybe this is the boost Koolwriting.com needed? If you can reference fonts remotely, this makes it possible to display any symbol imaginable. If you can’t find the symbol you want, it can be constructed (in a vector program) and hosted/linked:

Firefox 3.5 and the potential of Web typography | Software, Interrupted – CNET News

Firefox 3.5 added a new CSS rule that makes Web typography much more attractive.

@font-face is a CSS rule that allows Web designers to reference fonts not installed on end-user machines. Just as you would have a pointer to a server-based stylesheet or JavaScript file in your Web page code, you can now make reference to a hosted typeface.

I’ll work on it and let you know.

Don’t see your name? Look here.

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For you Photoshop geeks, check out this “bling” effect. Should work in GIMP too. If you look at the sparkles, looks like he placed each one by hand, because none of the circles are clipped. Probably used grid-snapping to fill the more obvious horizontal/vertical areas. However, that doesn’t work on diagonals.

Someone going by “nyit nyit” wrote these interesting graffiti-like comments on Ferodynamics.com that sparked my curiosity. This guy is good, take a look:

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So I asked him a few questions:

Do you have a website?
Do you have a name for what you do? ASCII artist?
How did you get interested in making these characters?
How do you make them, by hand? Does it take a long time?

PJ

>hy there…
>it’s me nyit-nyit..
>thx for being my fans..LoL
>btw i saw your text.. you told me to email you if i
> want an interview.. so what interview..?? sorry i’ve bad
> english.. hope you understand me..
>thx
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1. I don’t have any website.
2. I don’t have any name for what i’ve done. And my name is Hery. I’m from Indonesia.
3. I just like to helping people. And a little of interest.
4. I make them by my own hand. I give you the codes.
Alt + 187 = +
Alt + 186 = ¦
Alt + 188 = +
Alt + 185 = ¦
Alt + 1998 = +
Alt + 1997 = -
Alt + 1996 = ¦
Alt + 1995 = -
Alt + 1994 = -
Alt + 1993 = +
Alt + 1992 = +
And it just take a few minutes.

“Why can’t I see the symbols/characters like everyone else?”
“Why do my symbols/characters look like boxes, with numbers inside?”
“Why can’t I read the symbols/characters of other languages?”

The problem. Years ago, computers only had 128 characters: a-z, A-Z, punctuation, etc. They only spoke English. Few kool symbols. But that was then, this is now.

I’ll spare you the entire evolution from then to now, all you need to know is now we have Unicode (UTF-8) which gives us thousands more characters/symbols. From The Official Google Blog:

For the first time, we found that Unicode was the most frequent encoding found on web pages, overtaking both ASCII and Western European encodings.

So we have more characters/symbols now. How many? Over a hundred-thousand Unicode characters/symbols. But there’s only about 60,000 characters you really need, enough to cover all the modern languages. Most computers/websites won’t recognize much beyond this, otherwise known as “Plane 0″ or the “Basic Multilingual Plane”.

In HTML, that’s just about everything between ! and  where “xxx” in &#xxx; is the decimal number of the Unicode symbol/character you want represented. If you’re wondering,  looks like this: . By the way, forget about hexadecimal numbers, decimal is preferred for representing characters/symbols this way.

If you have an older version of Windows, you may not have most of the Basic Multilingual Plane, which is why you can’t see many of these kool symbols. To see these characters/symbols in the Firefox browser you first need to install Code2000.

How to install the Code2000 characters/symbols. Download the .ZIP file, here. Extract it. Remember where you extracted it, you’re going to need the directory in a minute. Now click your “Start” button, click “Settings / Control Panel”, and inside your Control Panel you will see “Fonts”, double-click it. Now you will see all the fonts you have installed, but guess what, none of them have the kool symbols/characters you want. Now click “File / Install New Font” and locate the directory where you extracted the Code2000.ZIP archive. Now you should see “Code2000 (TrueType)”. Select it and click “OK”. You’re done!

Almost like magic, all your incomplete fonts inherit the kool symbols/characters of Code2000, automatically. Even though you’re using Times New Roman (or whatever font) in Firefox, Windows is smart enough to grab the appropriate, missing Unicode characters from Code2000.

Now you have thousands and thousands of new characters/symbols to play with. Remember to tell your friends to get these characters. Otherwise they can’t see what you’re writing.

Note: I don’t know the maker of Code2000. It’s a “shareware font” which means the font is free but the maker is asking for a donation if you can afford it.