Localizable Sentences Experiment font support

[William]

Here is the latest font for the experiment.
LOCSE005.TTF
The font adds fourteen mapped glyphs as follows.

U+F9100 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS BLACK.
U+F9101 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS BROWN.
U+F9102 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS RED.
U+F9103 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS ORANGE.
U+F9104 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS YELLOW.
U+F9105 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS GREEN.
U+F9106 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS BLUE.
U+F9107 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS MAGENTA.
U+F9108 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS GREY.
U+F9109 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS WHITE.
U+F910A LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS CYAN.
U+F910B LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS PINK.
U+F910C LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS DARK GREY.
U+F910D LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS LIGHT GREY.

The Alt codes are Alt 1020160 to Alt 1020173. I have successfully used the font on a PC running Windows xp professional using Microsoft WordPad using the Alt codes. I do not know how it fares on other systems.

I am hoping to add some sentences such as LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE WHAT IS THE COLOUR PLEASE? and also some sentences for specifying the red, green, blue and alpha components of a custom colour and some localizable digits as well.

I am also thinking of adding some sentences such as LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THERE IS A FLOWER. so that experiments involving questions and answers involving colour can take place.

I have used the Petra Sancta system of hatching lines, often used for expressing colours in black and white books about heraldry, as a basis for the designs of many of the glyphs expressing colours. I find it interesting as to how more colours can be expressed using symbols.

Some readers may find the following threads of interest.

A puzzle with a purpose

Some readers may have read the thread in the Gallery forum about my experiments with Localizable Sentences expressed as Unicode characters. I am adding some sentences and some glyphs to represent colours. For example, the following. U+F9105 LOCALIZABLE SENTENCE THE COLOUR IS GREEN. I have produced fourteen glyphs, one for each of the following colours, black, brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, magenta, grey, white, cyan, pink, dark grey, light grey. I have been testing the font and ha…

Solution to a puzzle with a purpose.

In the thread, “A puzzle with a purpose” I posed a puzzle. https://forum.high-logic.com/t/a-puzzle-with-a-purpose/2496/1 This thread contains the solution to the puzzle. Readers who have not tried the puzzle and would like to do so before reading the solution may like to follow the above link before reading any more in this thread. Here is a copy of the image from the puzzle thread. locse005_random_order.png The puzzle is to try to deduce the order in which the glyphs representing the colo…

William Overington

20 May 2009