To be clear, I have no affiliation with Calligraphr. It's very simple, and while there are limitations with the free version, they didn't interrupt this project in any significant way.
It's a game-changer. As a lazy graphic artist, I've fiddled with font-making a number of times over the years, and I've had some minor successes - but, straight-up, Calligraphr is the tool I've been imagining the whole time. It's a free service that takes your artwork and converts it into fonts. If you want to use it in your project and imply there's some bleed-over, of course I think that's fun :D Teague has long been one of the cleverest, most methodical son-of-a-gun's I know (it's from a while back, but his write-up of learning arduino is one of my favorite things to read (and is what originally got me into arduino)), so I was totally delighted when he said he'd be down to tackle it!Ĭreative Commons 0 license - use it for whatever you likeĪlso, from a worldbuilding perspective, this is sort of a lazy shortcut- a "commons" language that's seen on multiple worlds.
There are always background/worldbuilding details that I'd love to dive deeper into, but would require a larger mental/time investment than I can justify (thanks Paul Spooner and the Shade subway map!) Dynamo Dream takes place over multiple worlds, and there's really no justifiable excuse for English to be the default language of most of these worlds, and while I don't particularly mind not bringing attention to it (or implying that the language has just been translated through The Power of Cinema)- having an unidentifiable written language seemed like a nice middle ground, without having to go full Tolkien. I've been friends with Teague for- dang, almost 20 years? We met ages ago on a fan film forum ""- which was the place to be for high-concept low-budget backyard filmmaking back in the day (if you were there you're likely already familiar with the 'Aurebesh' font he mentions (and which was also, I suspect, was the original reason I wanted a font to begin with) :P. This is a guest post! One of the absolute most exciting aspects of this patreon has been the possibility of bringing other folks on board to tackle things I don't know how to do, or am intimidated by this guest post by Teague is an example of that!
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