Not bad, but I've seen worse.
ProgFont is another attempt to make a font using some artificial constraint, and the results are similarly unreadable:
http://www.arcavia.com/Software/ProgFont/--Nick B Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:29:50 -0400
There's also Iain M. Banks' invention, "Marain," the language of The Culture, a super-advanced plural culture of sentient-machines, humans, and a load of other races.
Marain, which doesn't actual appear in written form in that many of the novels, is based on a 3x3 grid, as yours is, but in a "fill the grid" fashion, not "connect the dots" fashion. However, connecting the dots does play into it, and Banks eliminates symbols that are rotations or reflections of each other.
http://homepages.compuserve.de/Mostral/artikel/marain.html--LAN3 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:32:37 -0400
Those are some neat references.
I like trying to get the alienness of the Marain culture. It reminds me a little bit of the font I made for Pixeltime,
http://www.kisrael.com/pixeltime/ , with each letter in a 3x4 or at max 4x4 grid of pixels.
--kirk Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:14:17 -0400
the fact that you 'saw' this in your head to begin with amazes me. i wish i had a fraction of that creativity and/or ingenuity.
--aparajita Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:48:58 -0400
Heh, well thanks.
It's not-atypical geek behaviour, starting with just writing block letters on the graph paper "K I R K" and then wondering "just how simple can we make this?"
--Kirk Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:53:10 -0400
ya know.. thanks to the hunt, i have more graph paper than i know what to do with. you could have just asked. =P
--miller Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:41:41 -0400
:)
once a doodler always a doodler! i can't doodle past spirals, stars, flowers, and stick figures... sad.
--aparajita Mon, 23 Jul 2007 11:35:19 -0400