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Kzinti Regular | Kzinti.ttf

  • Font family: Kzinti
  • Font subfamily identification: Regular
  • Unique identifier: Urhixidur Fonts:Kzinti:Regular:Version 2. 00
  • Full font name: Kzinti
  • Version: Version 2. 00 - April 2002
  • Postscript font name: Kzinti-Regular
  • Manufacturer name: Urhixidur Fonts
  • Designer: Daniel U. Thibault
  • Description: Kzinti. ttf VERSION 2. 00 READ ME 27 April 2002 Daniel U. Thibault D. U. Thibault@Bigfoot. com Well, we've got fonts for nearly every major fictional alien race out there in SF TVMovie Land, from Babylon 5 to Star Trek by way of Star Wars. But what of Larry Niven's Kzinti? I have been able to find only two attempts at pictorial representations of this "dots-and-commas " script. Neither was very pleasing in my opinion, and neither was a font. So I had to make one up. The two pictures Kzinti. gif and Kzinti Sample. gif show my resulting font. It looks best printed 300+ dpi or at large screen sizes 24+ pt. Note that the "c " is meant to be a "ch " or "sh ", and that there are no Q, X, 8 or 9. In Larry Niven's Known Space, we learn that the Kzinti script evolved from claw markings in wood. This would influence the script the same way that runes were. Runes were also mostly graven in wood, so they had no transverse strokes to avoid going across the grain. So I figured Kzinti markings would be dots a simple peck of the claw or vertical scratches with a twist commas. This gives us a basic sub-glyph set of five symbols the period and the vertical and horizontal mirror images of the comma. Not enough for a full alphabet, obviously, so letters and other symbols must be small groupings of dots and commas. I chose a roughly two by three matrix as my basic glyph framework. The numbers only go from 0 to 7, since the Kzin have an octal base eight numeral system. I used the dot as a "one " and one of the commas as a "two ". Simple superpositions supply the numbers 3 through 7. I used what should by all logic be an 8 for the zero I didn't want to use a blank. The remaining symbols follow a strict convention of having a dot at the lower left, to minimize confusion when symbols run into each other. The other sub-glyph at the lower right serves to regroup the symbols. The vowels plus H, W and Y form one group, plosive, sibilant and labial consonants three more with the appropriate correspondences being apparent when the symbols are compared; for example, B and P only differ by the lower right sub-glyph. The last group which uses the double-dot base contains the miscellaneous symbols punctuation, mathematical, etc. I originally made this font with a combination of Corel Draw 4 and Softy 1. 07b; after a four year hiatus, I revised it thoroughly using Font Creator Program 3 and some home-made software tools. VERSION HISTORY 2. 00 27 April 2002; Complete overhaul, added characters 1. 11 07 January 2001; re-release 1. 10 02 April 2000 re-release 1. 04 04 August 1998; Rebuilt using Softy 1. 07b 1. 03 Rebuilt using Softy 1. 07a 1. 00 12 March 1998; Original release Softy 1. 06b Feedback is welcome!
  • License: NOTIFICATION OF LICENSE AGREEMENT This typeface is the property of Daniel U. Thibault and its use by you is covered under the terms of a license agreement. You may freely copy and distribute this typeface in fact, you may not charge a fee for doing so as long as it has not been tampered with for conversions to other formats, contact me. You may not copy parts of this typeface such as glyph contours without including an acknowledgement in the finished product. You may use this typeface in a finished product printed matter; electronic image; multimedia, television or cinematographic work of some kind as long as an acknowledgement is included. All I ask for is recognition.

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