{"id":4,"date":"2008-04-21T21:34:19","date_gmt":"2008-04-22T04:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/?p=4"},"modified":"2019-02-04T01:14:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:14:10","slug":"scarab-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/2008\/04\/scarab-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"scarab-speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/ftw.jpg\" alt=\"geek!  hero!  ftw!\"><br \/>\nThe comic book Blue Beetle (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_Beetle_%28Jaime_Reyes%29\">Wikipedia,<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.dcdatabaseproject.com\/Blue_Beetle_%28Jaime_Reyes%29\">DC Database<\/a>) includes alien technology speaking in an alien language.  Eventually, I realized I could decode it.  Then that I could make a font out of it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nScarab-Speak v 0.1, as a <a href=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/Scarab-Speak-0.1.ttf\">Truetype font<\/a> &#8211; it&#8217;s 7k, or 18k <a href=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/scarab-speak-0.1.zip\">zipped with the Fontforge source.<\/a> (In case someone tries to fix my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_a_new_typography_term.html\">keming<\/a> &#8211; I barely have auto-widths for the letters turned on.  This is my first attempted Truetype font.)<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I don&#8217;t have forms for zero or Q yet.  I picked up J &amp; Z from issues of Teen Titans &amp; Brave &amp; the Bold, by the way.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a decoder ring graphic &#8211;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/scarab-speak-decoder-ring.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/scarab-speak-decoder-ring.png\" alt=\"decoder ring\" width=\"443\" height=\"371\"><\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; &amp; here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/pronoiac.org\/scarabspeak\/scarab-speak-decoder-ring.pdf\">high quality PDF version of the decoder ring.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Edit &#8211; 2008-05-18 &#8211; the fixed zip link is all lowercase.  whoops.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/us\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-width:0\" src=\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/3.0\/us\/88x31.png\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis work is licensed under a <a rel=\"license\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/us\/\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 United States License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The comic book Blue Beetle (Wikipedia, DC Database) includes alien technology speaking in an alien language. Eventually, I realized I could decode it. Then that I could make a font out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,5],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bluebeetle","tag-fonts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pronoiac.org\/misc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}