04.26.08

Need a quick C-note?

Posted in humor, typography at 1:46 pm by India

Sanskit grammar

Kevin Pease of Designrants points out the following excellent opportunity—which, oddly, he doesn’t wish to take!—for an up-and-coming type designer to make a few bucks and gain some experience for his or her résumé:

The project is for outputing a variant Typeface from an existing open source Typeface, where the variant is replacing only 1 alphabet (upper,lower case, basic and italic) and putting a sanskrit alphabet (upper,lower case, basic and italic) that will have to be designed.

. . .

The budget is about $100 via Paypal, Moneybookers. Delivery for early/mid-next week.

Um, I don’t know much about designing typefaces, and nothing about Sanskrit, but that sounds . . . how shall I put it? . . . extremely challenging. Still, if you’re really hard up for cash and selling your spinal fluid isn’t working out for you, perhaps this is your dream project. If so, see Kevin’s post for more details!

Via Ultrasparky.

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Matthew Skala said,

April 26, 2008 at 6:50 pm

See the followup on Ultrasparky, which links to this Web-forum message. It sounds like when the prospective client says “alphabet” he actually means “letter,” which makes the scope of the project somewhat narrower. His view is that the shape of the letter k as it’s normally written is evil because it causes people to kill themselves (as proved by Hindu scripture), and so we should write English with a font in which the evil shape of the k has been replaced with the Devanagari letter क. To further this effort he wants to release a free font with the substitution, which everyone who writes English will surely want to switch to. So it’s not an entire Devanagari font family that’s required - only one letter, which he incorrectly calls an “alphabet.”
India said,

April 26, 2008 at 7:56 pm

Wow. I was going to complain about how disappointed I am, but that explanation for why the K needs to be changed makes it all worthwhile:

The shape “K” as it exist is more or less in the majority of the cases is flawed with tragedy based on holy scriptures. Thus why should something tragic be present in the shape of an alphabet. Now the tragedy is very grave and the shape symbolically is also very descriptive of this. Should this shape be continually be ingrained in the human psyche unconsciously and be put into a human mind? Also it can be argued because it has spiritual basis, somehow the tragic shape impacts the human on a unconscious or subconscious level to the point of carrying out that tragedy mentioned in the holy scriptures.

Because the shape of the alphabet “K” is used on a mass basis, the tragedy can also take the shape of gigantic proportions.

At this point, perhaps it should be mentioned what is the great tragedy that is being mentioned in this narrative? The answer to the question is SUICIDE. An act of someone that takes their own life. The act of someone so disturbed mentally that they cannot find any will to live.

Who knew?
BlueNight said,

April 29, 2008 at 12:38 am

Whether serious or a flawless joke, that link Wins The Internets Forever.