Thanks, Alan! https://paulhertz.net/docs/ware/IgnoBlox_FontFamily_PaulHertz.pdf is a prospectus for the IgnoBlox font family. There's a link to download the fonts. If you download them, the .otf files go in your fonts directory. The .sfd files are source files for the freeware app Font Forge.
At some point I'll announce the release with a bit more fanfare. For now, anyone who reads this message can play with the fonts. saludos, Paul On Sat, Jan 24, 2026 at 1:08 PM Alan Sondheim via NetBehaviour < [email protected]> wrote: > Not sure if I respond to this before , but this is absolutely brilliant > period i'm having my own health problems or write more period everything > about this is fantastic period > > *=====================================================* > > *directory http://www.alansondheim.org <http://www.alansondheim.org> tel > 347-383-8552**email sondheim ut panix.com <http://panix.com>, sondheim ut > gmail.com <http://gmail.com>* > *=====================================================* > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2026, 1:57 PM Paul Hertz via NetBehaviour < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Latest version of a computer graphic, created with my "illegible" >> IgnoBlox font. I asked ChatGPT to write a story synopsis using the text. >> ISTR NetBehaviour doesn't do inline images very well, so I'm providing a >> link. The font will eventually be released as free open source design. If >> you'd like a copy of the current files, contact me. >> >> I have limited enthusiasm for AI art, but the degree to which this >> generated text seemed to reflect cultural obsessions wired into an LLM >> struck me in an emotional way, despite my misgivings. >> >> *Image:* https://flic.kr/p/2rTnipm >> >> *Melancholy Chemistry Vagabond Rescues Lonely Brain Dead Spy* >> >> Synopsis >> >> Dr. Ilya Corven, a gifted but disillusioned chemist, wanders the >> borderlands of post-Cold-War Europe after abandoning both academia and >> nation, carrying only a rucksack of handwritten formulas and an unshakable >> sense that chemistry once promised more than weapons and patents. His >> melancholy is not romantic but chemical: he believes emotions are reactions >> that can be stalled, reversed, or gently catalyzed—and he is searching for >> proof that this belief has not hollowed him out. >> >> In a shuttered safehouse near the Adriatic, Ilya stumbles upon Mara, a >> former intelligence operative left behind after a failed extraction. She is >> alive but neurologically vacant, her mind chemically erased by an >> experimental failsafe intended to prevent defection. The agency has marked >> her as “brain dead” and already replaced her. Alone with her breathing body >> and unreadable eyes, Ilya recognizes the familiar cruelty of reductionism: >> a human life declared finished because it no longer performs its assigned >> function. >> >> Against his better judgment, Ilya begins an improvised, deeply personal >> rescue—using scavenged lab equipment, half-remembered theories, and >> unapproved compounds to coax Mara’s mind back into coherence. As fragments >> of her identity return, so do fragments of his own: guilt over inventions >> that harmed more than healed, and the quiet hope that restoration is >> possible without domination. The story unfolds as an intimate duel between >> chemistry and memory, ending not with a full recovery or a clean escape, >> but with two damaged people choosing to move forward together—no longer >> owned by the systems that broke them, and uncertain whether what has been >> revived is a person, a reaction, or something entirely new. >> >> // generated by ChatGPT in response to the title of this work >> >> -- >> ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- >> http://paulhertz.net/ >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > -- ----- |(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)| --- http://paulhertz.net/
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