Edward HasbrouckWhat are the most useful #alphabets for world #travel? My thoughts (please join the discussion!):
Public Domain Image ArchiveIllustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/18e537fe-b069-459b-bd00-5aabf09f6877
#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain
Sam at BLAGGoodness gracious me, it's actually a real book, with an introductory essay from the wonderful Morgane Côme.
This one from @letterformarchive looks spectacular and I can't wait to get my hands on it.
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
https://letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres-decoratives/
PS. Some of this stuff appeared in a small segment in BLAG 02 (https://bl.ag/02) but this book is next level.
#SignPainting #SignPainters #Enseignes #Signwriters #Signwriting #France #Alphabets
Letterform ArchiveAnnouncing
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets
Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France. With in-depth research from sign painter Morgane Côme and dozens of rare alphabet plates, it’s an essential reference and delightful guide to the fashionable letterforms that defined the classic French streetscape.
ponsfrilus++@gutenberg_org regroups some treasures, such as this list of books of alphabets, lettering, contouring or shaping. Stunning!
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets
OCTADE@papers@soc.octade.net
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology
Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet
DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469
Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.
#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology
MyrakelDie Erfindung des #NATO-#Alphabets
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv
#hamradio #funk #Amateurfunk #wissenschaft #forschung #sprache
The genius logic of the NATO phonetic alphabet
Illustration by Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre, from Alphabet-album; collection de soixante feuilles d'alphabets historiés et fleuronnés, tirés des principales bibliothèques de l'Europe (1843).
Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b38d951e-8b88-42c1-b76c-6e23ad591f2b
#type #alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #fonts #art #publicdomain
Edgar WalthertThanks to everyone that came to #Alphabetum on Saturday to see Writing Systems of the Otherworld in collaboration with Tim Brookes @Endangeredalphabets.
We see @letterror, @typearture and @AleksandraSamulenkova reading and discussing dream stories that lead to the creation of these #alphabets, #syllabics or #idiographic languages.
Also present, but not in the pictures; @MatthijsSluiter, @underware, @typotheque and @TypeMedia student & alumni and non-Mastodonians.
Illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall, from The Cubies’ ABC (1913).
Source: The Getty / Internet Archive
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/70fc093e-807a-408f-a27c-b301aaf2eb03
#easels #alphabets #painting #sitting #smoking #modernism #cubism #art #publicdomain
