"Alien" font
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These files are (c) Copyright 2000-2002 Jim Peters, all rights
reserved.  The program source is put under the GPL v2 -- see file
COPYING.  I really don't know what terms to release the rest of it
under.  If you want to redistribute these files, or to use this stuff
in some commercial way, just ask.  Some guy has already used the font
in a film he was making.

Here are some brief notes on the files here:

  alien1.gif
  alien1.txt

These are the font dump sheet (from the PS-font), and a text-mode
console version (in ASCII order).  The quality is crude, but this is
the basis of the console-font that I generated.

  bf-con.py
  alien1.font

`bf-con.py' is a python script that generates the text-mode font file,
and this may be useful because it describes the font in terms of lines
connecting nine points in a 3x3 grid, which I numbered according to
the standard numeric keypad layout.  This may be useful if you wish to
write scripts/code to render the font in other ways.  The other file
is similar, except that it is the PostScript source that I was using
to originally generate the font.  It requires other (broken) script
files that I've not included.

  draw-sheet.pdf
  draw-sheet2.pdf

Two more sheets, in PDF format.  The first is a page full of filtered
shapes.  I started off with all possibilities, and filtered them to
remove shapes and so on that I felt was ugly, and this is what I
eventually ended up with.  I picked the characters I most liked out of
this to make up the character set.  The second sheet shows these
characters blown up large.

  data2.py
  data_num.py
  draw-sheet.py
  draw-sheet2.py

This is the python source to generate the PS files for these two sheets.

  gen-num.cc
  gen.cc
  
This is the C source used to generate the filtered list of characters in
data2.py and data_num.py.

Jim

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