re smelly fonts (was: Saying characters out loud (derives from hash, pound,octothor pe?))

From: Tex Texin (tex@i18nguy.com)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 16:44:25 EDT


I saw the movie Polyester in Odorama. A John Waters film with Divine.
They handed out scratch and sniff cards and the movie flashed numbers at
the right time for you to scratch the numbered dot on the card which
released the odor. It was a great technique and effect. They played a
few tricks on the audience as well, substituting unexpected smells for
the ones you were anticipating. It was great.

Anyone for scratch and sniff fonts?

It could be a problem though to scratch the character of the smoking
Frenchman, where smoking is prohibited...
;-)

Hey too bad we don't have a Gun character. Scratch it, and the gun goes
off and becomes the smoking gun everyone is looking for!
It could be the first animated, noisy, smelly font!
(Probably shoots the dot off the dotted i, making it Turkish.)

;-) (OK, its friday!)

David Possin wrote:
>
> OK, while we are at it: smelly fonts, anyone?
>
> (actually I can imagine how some fonts smell)
>
> Dave
> --- Barry Caplan <bcaplan@i18n.com> wrote:
> > At 09:43 AM 7/12/2002 -0400, Suzanne M. Topping wrote:
> >
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: David Possin [mailto:dave_i18n@yahoo.com]
> > >>
> > >> so now we have a chromatic audio attribute for each character?
> > >
> > >Don't be ridiculous. Sounds don't have chroma.
> > >
> > >There will however be a need for tone and accent variation so that
> > >proper localization can be executed.
> > >
> > >;^P
> >
> > I have been dreaming of the idea of synaesthetic applications for
> > years but haven't come up with a way to do it yet. But sounds
> > absolutely will need chroma, that much I know. And when you "say it
> > with feeling", the fonts will literally be perceived as "feeling"
> >
> > Such an application better not be written for Windows, because the
> > "blue screen of death" will be felt rather than seen :)
> >
> > Barry Caplan
> > www.i18n.com
> >
> >
>
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