Friday, April 3, 2020

FREE DOWNLOAD | Dotsies font, rectified -- a post with not enough backstory, as metonymic tribute

Do what thou wilt shall be the Whole of the Law.  
Now, before an hour hath struck upon the Bell, please.
"Metonymy, or, dcode dot dotsie," to dcode.fr from a female faust
"Metonymy, or, dcode dot dotsie," to dcode.fr from a female faust,
a Faustian original; mouseover for transliteration.




The dcode.fr page on the dotsies font:




The section just about the letters as you see omits showing the numbers.  Maybe because they looked like numbers (1234567890).  

Very unnerving.



before (a reconstruction) 
after (so much better)
I fix.


Above on the left is a screenshot of my notes on rectificando dotsiæ.


Below, a shot of the FontForge file for rectificando dotsiæ.




N.B.: This is optimized for base64; all 64 permutations find use in beauty for form even as awesome for function. 

This is offered to the dcode team in the hopes it brings joy.


Here is the html source of the above dcode.fr page, minified, and rendered in rectificando dotsiæ.




click for pdf



Downloads:


download original dotsies.ttf


download my rectificando dotsiæ    

       as FontForge 
rectificando dotsiæ.sfd                                        
       as True Type 
rectificando dotsiæ.ttf

Be seeing you.








Divide, add, multiply, and understand.
Love is the law, love under will.

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