Monochrome for Colours font

William · Post by **William** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 8:17 am

Yesterday I produced a font as a gadget to help in developing an idea.

The font is available as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/MONFCOLS.TTF

The idea is explained at the following web page.

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XOj_in_monochrome

The main page for the One Laptop per Child project is at http://www.laptop.org and the main page for the wiki is at the http://wiki.laptop.org page.

I am now thinking of trying to produce some glyphs for some additional colours, the five by five design with all four corners dark means that there are theoretically 2 to the power of 21 possible designs, though in practice designs which are clearly distinct from other designs are needed so many theoretically possible designs would not be suitable.

William Overington

30 January 2007

Edited to correct the link to the font.

Erwin Denissen · Post by **Erwin Denissen** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 12:06 pm

The link to the font fails. Here is the correct link:
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/MONFCOLS.TTF

Nice idea and the font is perfect!

William · Post by **William** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 1:23 pm

Thank you for pointing out the error in the link. I have now corrected it.

Thank you also for your kind comments about the idea and the font.

William

William · Post by **William** » Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:58 am

The font has been updated and version 0.05 is now the version available from the above link. Six new glyphs have been added. Each of them is intended to represent a colour.

The previous version, version 0.02, is still available on the web: the file has been renamed as MONFCOLS002.TTF and a link is as follows.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/MONFCOLS002.TTF

This means that I have a backup copy of the original published version available on the web and that font collectors may still collect that version if they so wish.

The web page in the OLPC wiki mentioned above has also been updated to document the six new colours which are represented and the keys used to access them.

I am not documenting them here in case some readers might like to install the font and find the newly represented colours and make guesses at which colours are represented before checking using the web page. All of the glyphs in the font which represent colours are accessed using a key from the ranges a..z and A..Z. The exclamation mark is used to represent a separator glyph.

Designing the glyphs has been interesting.

I am interested in colour and look at the http://www.pantone.com webspace from time to time.

William