Entropy
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I'm looking for someone who can design a font for me. However, I've got a specific want that I'm not sure can be done.
See, I'm currently working on a collection of interlocking short stories, and one of the primary characters of several of them is grapheme synesthete. For those who don't know what that is and don't want to look it up, they are people that perceive letters as being colored. That is to say, to them the letter "A" is red, "Q" is yellow, etc. Now part of my narration involving him is going to involve how he gets caught up in these colors and they lend to him a different level of writing (for instance, he discusses how the word "dour" is a palindrome because the colors are the same backwards and forwards). The trouble is, I'm NOT a grapheme, so writing the text in black, while looking at a key, while trying to picture those letters as I type is not working.
So then, we get to the root of my problem. I need a font where each letter is colored differently and shows up like that as I type? Is this at all possible? I'm not at all picky about what type of font it is (though a ledgible font like Courier or Times Roman would be preferred), but it would have to be Mac compatible, and I'll specify what letters need to be what color. Anyone know where I can get this, or know how to do it and would be willing to help me out? If so, I'll name a character after you . Thanks.
See, I'm currently working on a collection of interlocking short stories, and one of the primary characters of several of them is grapheme synesthete. For those who don't know what that is and don't want to look it up, they are people that perceive letters as being colored. That is to say, to them the letter "A" is red, "Q" is yellow, etc. Now part of my narration involving him is going to involve how he gets caught up in these colors and they lend to him a different level of writing (for instance, he discusses how the word "dour" is a palindrome because the colors are the same backwards and forwards). The trouble is, I'm NOT a grapheme, so writing the text in black, while looking at a key, while trying to picture those letters as I type is not working.
So then, we get to the root of my problem. I need a font where each letter is colored differently and shows up like that as I type? Is this at all possible? I'm not at all picky about what type of font it is (though a ledgible font like Courier or Times Roman would be preferred), but it would have to be Mac compatible, and I'll specify what letters need to be what color. Anyone know where I can get this, or know how to do it and would be willing to help me out? If so, I'll name a character after you . Thanks.
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