OT Font Question

[Mark Swindell]

Never mind that last.  I see the list and examples at the bottom of  
the page.  It would be nice if the jpg were of higher resolution so I  
could see them more clearly.

Mark

On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:28 AM, Adrian Williams wrote:

> We offer a digraphs font exactly as you describe.
> The original typefaces were researched and developed
> for use in education to teach children and adults (this version)...
> http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/s460sample.html
>
> Sassoon® Jolly Phonics Digraph fonts will enable you to write easy- 
> to-use pronunciation guides for children or adults.
>
> This product is part of the larger Sassoon® Project...
> http://www.clubtype.co.uk/fonts/sas/sasslist_com.html
>
> Hope that helps?
> Adrian
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> On 30 Sep 2008, at 05:31, Mark Swindell wrote:
>
>> Devin,
>>
>> Thanks for the link.  I'm actually after something that I think may  
>> not exist.  It would be similar in function to an IPA font, but  
>> with regular English character pairs whose kerning would be reduced  
>> so that they would represent a single visual unit, mirroring how  
>> they represent sound.  "Good" would be "G oo d" and "shallow" would  
>> be "sh a ll ow."  It would require tweaking the kerning between  
>> digraph letter pairs and dipthongs to tighten them up, while  
>> keeping regular spacing between these double letters, single  
>> letters, and words.
>>
>> I'm not sure it's worth the trouble to create, but in teaching I  
>> find that some children have a difficult time seeing that "sh" for  
>> example, is not "s h" but rather its own phonetic unit.  (A  
>> parallel: until fairly recently, "ch" was the fourth letter of the  
>> Spanish alphabet, though it was never represented with tighter  
>> kerning... I think the Real Academia might have done away with that  
>> one, as well as the "ll", at least for purposes of alphabetizing.   
>> (Wikpedia: In 1994, it ruled that the Spanish consonants CH (ché)  
>> and LL (elle) would hence be alphabetized under C and under L,  
>> respectively, and not as separate, discrete letters, as in the past.)
>>
>> The idea was to be able to present text to kids written with these  
>> combinations emphasized while retaining a somewhat natural look.
>>
>> Mark,
>>
>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Devin Asay wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Sep 29, 2008, at 12:34 PM, Mark Swindell wrote:
>>>
>>>> Does anyone here know if there exists a font that combines the  
>>>> letters
>>>> that make phonemes, be they digraphs, dipthongs, or just multiple
>>>> letters (oo, ee, ea)?
>>>>
>>>> For example, the word "cough" would have three phonemic chunks: c  
>>>> - ou
>>>> - gh.
>>>>
>>>> But the phonetic representations of the short o phoneme (ou) and  
>>>> the /
>>>> f/ (gh) would be squished up against each other so they would be
>>>> recognized as a chunk, not as separate letters?  Does this make  
>>>> sense?
>>>
>>> Not exactly sure what you are after. Would an IPA font do what you  
>>> wanted? You can get some very good ones from sil.org:
>>>
>>> http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=Font
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Devin
>>>
>>> Devin Asay
>>> Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
>>> Brigham Young University
>>>
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