Re: [lojban] Re: The Programmer's Alphabet

["Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@kli.org>]

Ugh. It's really... um, strange. He's going for distinctiveness, and yet 
many of the glyphs are rotations and reflections of each other? I know 
that's technically distinct, but people do frequently make those kind of 
mistakes, not just mis-seeing.


The sample font doesn't have the same slanty tops for the numbers; they 
all just look like usual LED figures (and we all know how readable those 
are). Some of the letters are hard to explain.


For easily disambiguated things, you might want to start with the 
various OCR fonts, since those were designed with just that in mind, 
though not with the small-size requirement.


~mark


Robin Lee Powell wrote:

> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 03:50:49PM -0400, Matt Arnold wrote:
>  
>
> > Those here who are interested in de-novo alphabets and in
> > computers will be interested in The Programmer's Font, which
> > should have been named The Programmer's Alphabet.
> >
> > http://www.arcavia.com/Software/ProgFont/
> >    
>
> The demo would be more interesting if the letters were very, very
> small (to prove his point).
>
> -Robin
>
>