{"id":1119,"date":"2012-05-26T23:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-05-26T23:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2012-05-26T23:19:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-26T23:19:16","slug":"truly-creative-fonts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/truly-creative-fonts\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly Creative Fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1998 I discovered Word 97&#8217;s Symbols font and went totally wild with what I thought could be an excellent secret code. Using font sets as arrays of icons or images is nothing particularly new:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WARN1___.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1130\" title=\"WARN1___\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WARN1___.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WARN1___.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/WARN1___-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PLANTS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1128\" title=\"PLANTS\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PLANTS.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PLANTS.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/PLANTS-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBut I&#8217;ve discovered some more interesting\/innovative uses of fonts lately:<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1131\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Braille-Regular.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1131\" title=\"Braille-Regular\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Braille-Regular.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Braille-Regular.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Braille-Regular-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1131\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Braille dots - good for a materials printer!<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1135\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MUSICAL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1135\" title=\"MUSICAL\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MUSICAL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MUSICAL.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MUSICAL-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1135\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Musical notes - one octave only?<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1133\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gesture-Glyphs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1133\" title=\"Gesture Glyphs\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gesture-Glyphs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gesture-Glyphs.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Gesture-Glyphs-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Letter gestures for touch interfaces<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_1136\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HANDSIGN1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1136\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1136\" title=\"HANDSIGN\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HANDSIGN1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HANDSIGN1.jpg 320w, https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/HANDSIGN1-300x38.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1136\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For long-form sign-language<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KEYB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"KEYB\" src=\"http:\/\/duenos.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/KEYB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make a picture of a key you type<\/p><\/div><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 1998 I discovered Word 97&#8217;s Symbols font and went totally wild with what I thought could be an excellent secret code. Using font sets as arrays of icons or images is nothing particularly new: But I&#8217;ve discovered some more interesting\/innovative uses of fonts lately: &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[83,103,191,388],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-computers","tag-design","tag-interface","tag-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}