June 2007 Archives

Oh boy. I just read an interesting article on ZDNet/News.com. A very creative guy named Dr Lee Freedman has come up with a cute idea called "Kromofons" (but the web site seesm to be down). Assign each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet a color. Then you can communicate in sequences of colors rather than letters. It allows for multi-layered communications as you can mix color-coding in with other kinds of graphics much more easily than you can mix text and graphics. Too bad the basic idea is too flawed to get very far - even though it could be fun.

Very quietly a couple of years ago, with Acrobat 7.05, Adobe shipped Adobe Arabic, an original OpenType typeface commissioned by Adobe with production by Tiro Typeworks, created by type designer Tim Holloway with Fiona Ross and John Hudson. The typeface won recognition from the TDC and has generally been well received.

Tiro recently had inquiries about showing the VOLT source code for Adobe Arabic to a third-party font developer. We're fine with that, but we thought that to be fair to all developers I should simply post the code here for any interested party. So here you are (73K Zip file).