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Paul Greer
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:11am | IP Logged | 1
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Will we be able to send for the decoder ring thru the mail?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
You have to send five UPC symbols from your Doom Patrol comics, and three UPC symbols from your bottles of Ovaltine. sp?
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Lars Johansson
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:21am | IP Logged | 2
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It's a beautiful alphabet, something "Byrnish".
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Ernest Degollado
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:21am | IP Logged | 3
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I got it in about three seconds based strictly on the first three numbers. Looking a the second image JB posted I seriously doubt I would have figured out the correlation at all and probably would be still be scratching my head trying to figure out what's wrong with JB's keyboard.
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Keith Elder
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:40am | IP Logged | 4
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I wouldn't have gotten it from the second picture, at least not without a lot of work.
This looks like some mystic script that could be used in BOTD.
-Keith
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Steve Lyons
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:41am | IP Logged | 5
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A little obvious in its origins, but as the others pointed out, can be salvaged when out of sequence. Very nice.
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Andrew Bitner
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 10:46am | IP Logged | 6
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The second alphabet wouldn't suggest any source to me whatsoever-- it looks really good and "alien."
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Dan Marcoux
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At first glance, it looks pretty good... however, from the second example, it shows that some of the most common letters of the alphabet A, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, and S, all contain a line across the top, which, I feel, makes it look "sloppy."
I'd suggest making the even numbered letters (I, K, M, O, and R) a "dot" or maybe a half line. Something similar to this, maybe:
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John Mietus
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 11:33am | IP Logged | 8
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Looks vaguely Arabic, which makes sense, given its origin.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | 9
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...contain a line across the top, which, I feel, makes it look "sloppy." ***** If I were to take the time to make an actual font of this, I don't think that would be a problem, as the lines would, er, line up.
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Gerry Turnbull
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 12:18pm | IP Logged | 10
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JB, what programme do you use to make fonts?
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 04 May 2005 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | 11
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I used to use FONTastic, and then clean up the results on FONTographer, but both of those are really old programs that will not run on my current Mac. I have no font maker at my disposal at present.
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Jeremy Nichols
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Fontographer was great. I used to make fonts out of album
cover typefaces, just for fun. Van Morrision's Moondance was
my favorite, although the Black Crowes (1st album) font was fun
too.
But, anyway, the numero-font works as an alien font, sure. It's
marginally easy to figure out where it comes from, but that's
good. If I were reading it in a comic and figured that out... then
I'd work out the code (using 1 for A, etc.) and see if the aliens
were "really" saying anything, or if it was gibberish. If I could
"translate" that myself in the comic... well, that would've blown
my mind as a kid (and probably still would today).
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