Hey all,
I made a font of the special characters on the Decoder Ring so you can make your own secret messages.

Font

And a chart of what letter makes what symbol,

Chart

And of course an example to translate yourself,

http://home.comcast.net/~rlcoon/rocketmen/example.gif

Enjoy!
BastKitty

I must be symbolically challenged, since I couldn't get the fonts to work (even with technical assistance, are they Win or Mac fonts?), and manual translation didn't get me any further. Wcec...???!

I gotta get that decoder ring!!!!

GaymBoi the ever clueless

It is a True Type Font (.ttf)

The manual translation isn't supposed to work, things would hardly be secret if all you needed to do was change the font... ;)

BastKitty

Be sure the font is installed properly.
It worked fine for me.

http://www.cindigirl.com/RocketWomen.jpg

Note, this is a caps-only font. Typing lower-case letters just gives blanks. This might be the root of your problems, GB.

---Dave

Hm, addendum...a few letters seem to be missing regardless of capitalization.

---Dave

This font only has the characters in the decoder ring, all 15 of them. The chart listed above, in my original post, shows what letter is what character.

Yes, I should have mentioned it is caps only and only the letters "QWEASDFGHJKLZXC" at that.

All coded letters will take up two characters, that have to be typed in seperatly. Just use a space between coded letters and two or three spaces between coded words.

BastKitty

Ah, okay. I thought it was a proper font, with the two-character chunk for each of the 26 letters and 10 numbers so you could actually just type it in. Not too terribly useful as it stands...easier to just hand write it rather than hunt around trying to remember which letter gives which of the 15 symbols.

---Dave

I was originally going to do that, but I wanted to preserve the "secret code" aspect of it, and if I just made it with the block aspect, it could just be translated by changing the font.

All said, I may just post that one too.

BastKitty

I like it. I'd like the full set block aspect as well, though - it would make it easier to compose messages for my club. And, of course, if you put the text in a jpg, then they can't just copy-n-paste it into Word and translate it...

I'll restart work on that one then. :)

Most of the hard work (making the glyphs) is allready done.

I'll post it here when the full block set one is done.

BastKitty

Danke.

---Dave

And here is the requested version, where each letter is the complete code for that letter. I did both upper and lower case as well as the numbers.

Font

Hope you like it. :D

BastKitty

Thanks. I'm getting weird behavior on some of the capital letters (A, E, J, N, O, Q, S, V), though...is it just me? By weird behavior, I mean A overlaps backwards, and the other ones overlap forwards (i.e. the next letter starts in the middle of the capital in question). Not really a functionality issue, of course, since you can type everything out in lower case. :)

---Dave

Nope, Checking it again, it isn't just you. :(

I just finished fixing (I hope) those problems, as well as a wrong symbol that I found whist decoding a card I got today (the "I"). Just download and reinstall the font again.

Font

Thanks, and I hope people use it and upload some messages with it.
Did anyone decode the message in my original post int this thred?

BastKitty