Wow, that's really, really ambitious. I'd love to know what tactics you use to maintain stroke thicknesses for intricate scripts like Sinhala or vertical-consonant-stackers like Kannada/Telugu. Good luck! Kingsley Joseph
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Thaths <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:24 AM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Kingsley Jegan Joseph <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> > >> >> हिंदी, picola di Italiano & muy pocito Español, read Brahmi and some >> Tamil >> >> >> > >> > >> > Welcome. Where did you learn Brahmi (or why did you choose it). Asking >> > since it is a pretty unusual choice. >> >> Self-taught, there are a lot of glyph tables online, and all Indian >> scripts being Brahmi-derived, very easy to pick up the concepts. Being >> into history, have always wanted to read inscriptions. Learning Brahmi >> allowed me to read Asokan edicts, which was pretty cool (even though >> the underlying Pali was hard, picking out place and people names was >> cool). >> > > Hi Kingsley, > > I've seen your name around. Don't believe we've actually met. > > Since you are interested in languages/scripts, you'll be interested in one > of the projects I'm working on - developing a harmonious font family to > cover all of the world's (encoded) languages. More details (including some > fonts to download) at noto.googlecode.com > > It has been a fun experience learning about Egyptian Hieroglyphics, > Sumero-Akkadian Cuneiform and Brahmi as we build fonts for those scripts. > > Thaths > PS: For the cypherpunks of the list, we are also building a font for Linear > B. > -- > Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? > Carl: Nuthin'. > Homer: D'oh! > Carl: Unless you're crooked. > Homer: Woo-hoo!
