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Every mark below is constructed — a tiling, two rays off every edge at one angle, and wherever they meet. Nothing is traced and nothing is a bitmap. The sliders carry their provenance: ticks mark values measured off real objects, and the note says when you have left them. Touch a ring and it becomes yours; Randomise redraws everything you have not touched. Read the commentary · source
What is on the page
Either, or both. With both, the window knocks a
hole in the ground so nothing shows through its opening.
Subject
Page — ground, border and window
Letterset — one or more letters reserved from a field
Device — shamsa, verse marker, marginal almond
A letterset and a device are their own small
canvas, sized to what they occupy, so they drop into a layout at the size they
come out.
Letterset
Font
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TrueType only — the reader takes glyf outlines, not OpenType/CFF. These are the faces this site already serves; bring your own with Choose a file… .
The letterform
left blank — a reserve
filled with a grid of its own
Inside it D, B, O
whatever surrounds it
blank — the letter reserves solid
a grid of its own
Four regions, four cards below: the border, the field
round the letter, the letterform, and the counter. Give the letterform a
finer repeat than the field and the two read as figure and ground — which
is mushkil , where the blank counts as much as the mark.
Device
Kind
Shamsa — a dedication medallion
Verse marker — a khatam in a scalloped ring
Marginal almond
Page and ink
Tinctures
Hatched — one ink
Laid as colour
Light — only relief uses it
Form
Page — inward from the trim
Window — outward from the opening
Ring 1 touches the opening and carries this
tale's own grid; each ring outward is the tale that contains it.
Defaults for derived rings
Title in the opening
Spec
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