3Strands

3Strands Font Metadata

• Name: 3Strands
• Subfamily: Regular
• Subfamily ID: Urhixidur Fonts:3Strands:Regular:Version 1.01
• Full Name: 3Strands
• Version: Version 1.01 - April 2002
• Weight: 400
• Postscript: 3Strands-Regular
• File Size: 46 KB
• File Extension: .ttf
• Number of Characters: 550
• Number of Glyphs: 406
• Manufacturer: Urhixidur Fonts
• Designer: Daniel U. Thibault
• Description: 3Strands.ttf VERSION 1.01 READ ME
  27 April 2002
  Daniel U. Thibault
  D.U.Thibault@Bigfoot.com

  This is a freeware alien font. It looks somewhat like if
  someone had dipped three worms in ink and had them race each
  other on the paper. It looks best printed (300+ dpi) or at
  large screen sizes (24+ pt).

  The basic concept is thus: using this font, you generate
  lines of "text" that look like a continuous braid of three
  strands that sometimes split or merge, turn around, stop and
  start, and weave in front of or behind each other. This simple
  principle turns out to be very rich in possibilities --I could
  not squeeze all the possible glyphs in the printable character
  set.

  For proper results, each "word" (string of characters
  terminated by a blank on either side) should be enclosed in
  any of the following pairs of characters:

  Opening characters: ( ] } ” ’ »
  ANSI 41 62 93 125 148 146 187

  There is no need for the closing character to match the
  opening character.
  (145-146 are the curly apostrophes; 147-148 are the
  curly quotes; 171-187 are the guillemets)

  Other pairs that were considered are:
  Opening characters: " ' ‹ ! ? /
  ANSI 34 39 139 33 63 47
  Closing characters: „ ‚ › ¡ ¿
  ANSI 132 130 155 161 191 92
  They weren't used since we did not need more than seven.
  (130 is the lowered curly apostrophe; 132 is the lowered curly quote;
  139-155 are the angle quotation marks; 161 is the Spanish closing
  exclamation mark; 191 is the Spanish closing question mark)

  The two pictures (3Strands1.gif and 3Strands2.gif) show the
  resulting font.

  I made this font with a combination of Corel Draw, Softy 1.07b,
  Font Creator Program 3 and some home-made software tools.

  CHARACTER MAP NOTES

  I tried to fulfill the TrueType minimum recommended character set,
  whilst also remaining within the 0..255 ANSI character code range.
  The following non-standard mappings were made to fill ANSI gaps:
  Unicode ANSI Character
  321 129 L stroke
  322 141 l stroke
  286 143 G breve
  287 144 g breve
  304 157 I dot
  305 164 dotless i
  350 173 S cedilla / soft hyphen
  713 175 macron

  The following glyph pairs have identical appearances; the "copies"
  were made so Macintosh Roman mappings (which lie in the 0..255 range)
  give access to as many of the otherwise Windows/Unicode-only glyphs:

  Unicode Windows Mac Character
  8800 - 173 not equal to
  350 173 - S cedilla / soft hyphen

  8734 - 176 infinity
  304 157 - I dot

  8804 - 178 less than or equal to
  287 144 - g breve

  8805 - 179 greater than or equal to
  286 143 - G breve

  8706 - 182 partial differential
  190 190 - vulgar fraction three quarters

  8721 - 183 summation
  188 188 - vulgar fraction one quarter

  8719 - 184 product
  189 189 - vulgar fraction one half

  960 - 185 pi
  179 179 - superscript three

  8747 - 186 integral
  178 178 - superscript two

  8486 - 189 Ohm
  185 185 - superscript one

  8730 - 195 radical
  215 215 - multiplication

  8776 - 197 approximately equal to
  254 254 - lower case thorn

  8710 - 198 increment
  222 222 - upper case thorn

  9674 - 215 lozenge
  253 253 - lower case y acute

  8260/8725 - 218 fraction
  221 221 - upper case y acute

  61441/64257 - 222 fi ligature
  240 240 - lower case eth

  61442/64258 - 223 fl ligature
  208 208 - upper case eth

  728 - 249 breve
  166 166 - broken bar

  729 - 250 dot accent
  382 158 - lower case z caron

  730 - 251 ring accent
  381 142 - upper case z caron

  733 - 253 hungarian umlaut
  353 154 - lower case s caron

  731 - 254 ogonek
  352 138 - upper case s caron

  711 - 255 caron (hacek)
  322 141 - lower case l stroke

  VERSION HISTORY

  1.01 Minor adjustments; 27 April 2002
  1.00 Original release; 26 April 2002

  Feedback is welcome!

• MD5: 9b92965860e270ec068e318270429b90
• Copyright: © 2002 Daniel U. Thibault

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