Hylian 64 Font font

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-Hylian 64 by BRPXQZME
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This TTF font for Windows is based on
the Hylian glyphs found at certain
points in the games The Legend of Zelda:
Ocarina of Time, Master Quest, and
Majora's Mask. (Not as found in the
Wind Waker, which is set at a later
point in time and uses more and
different characters).

Spoken Hylian is indiscernable from
Japanese, and written Hylian is a cipher
of the Japanese system. Hylian is the
lingua franca of the Zelda world, most
notably used in the lands of Hyrule and
Termina. Knowledge of the language is
imperative for travellers of these
regions, which are known to have
problems with monsters and such every
now and then, making it necessary
to have at least a sword and shield, or
some other method of defense. Merchants
and shopkeepers will more likely than
not use Hylian exclusively.

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-Accuracy
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The glyphs themselves are readable as
Hylian, however the font was based as
much as possible on a 5 by 7 grid of
pixels, rather than taking a close study
of the games themselves.

Also, while the Hylian syllabary is
based of that of Japanese, the encoding
for this font was based on ASCII and
mapped for the QWERTY keyboard instead
of encoded for Japanese. This is the
fault of the author, who does not know
how to set it as such. Therefore, the
font is mapped for use by standard US
QWERTY keyboards.

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-How to read Hylian
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The syllabary is a basic cipher of that
of the Japanese; knowledge of that
writing system is highly recommended,
because it is pointless for the user to
attempt to transliterate words to
Hylian otherwise. It will be assumed
for the rest of the document that the
user knows how to use the Japanese
kana writing systems.

Hylian is normally written left to
right, although occasionally
right to left. If written the latter
way, the text is to be flipped
horizontally from the way this font
presents the glyphs. However, this
method is rarely used, and even more
rarely typed as such.

Hylian DOES NOT have the dakuten and
han-dakuten to indicate the g, z, d, b,
and p rows. For these, the character
without these diacritic marks is used.

In addition to this limitation which
makes the text difficult to read,
characters that are shrunken in normal
Japanese text (such as the tsu to
indicate a double consonant, or the
ya, yu, or yo to indicate a palatalized
syllable) are kept at normal size.

This font provides a space character,
but it is only used in Hylian for
style, but the user should feel free to
use to use it however he or she pleases.

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-How to type Hylian using this font
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This font should be used in Roman mode
if using a Japanese input system.
The keys are mapped as such:

1 2 3 4 5
a i u e o

6 7 8 9 0
ka ki ku ke ko

q w e r t
sa shi su se so

y u i o p
ta chi tsu te to

a s d f g
na ni nu ne no

h j k l ;
ha hi fu he ho

z x c v b
ma mi mu me mo

- [ '
ya yu yo

n m , . /
ra ri ru re ro

= ]
wa wo

\
n'

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- Q&A
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Q: Who are you, anyway?
A: My name is Alfie Parthum. I go to
Thomas Jefferson High School for
Science and Technology. I do LOTS of
stuff, too much to write here, sorry.

Q: Alfie, you are a freak.
A: Thank you.

Q: Alfie, you are so sexy I want to--
A: Um, Thank you.

Q: Can I put this on my site?
A: Good question. Yes, go ahead, but
give me clear credit, because I just
might decide to find out where you live.

Q: Nihongo-wo naraimasu ka?
A: Hai. Demo, heta desu. Sensei wa
Fujita-sensei. Tomasu Jefaason koukou
no Nihongo no sensei desu.

Q: Hablas Espa�ol?
A: Solamente estudi� para uno a�o. No
muy bien.

Q: Parlez-vous Fran�ais?
A: Non, je ne parle Fran�ais....

Q: d0 j00 7yp3 f4573r 1n 1337?!!111one
A: Actually, sometimes I do d00d.

Q: WTF.
A: You stupid product of a mediocre
educational system.

Q: Can I translate this readme?
A: If you can, please do it!

Q: Will you do the Wind Waker Hylian?
A: Probably not. It's just harder...

Q: Where should this file originate?
A: It should come off of my site
the BRPXQZME Network
(http://www.brpx.net), or off of my
school webspace
(http://www.tjhsst.edu/~aparthum).
If I am not given credit for the font
and/or this file is not distributed
along with the font, I just MIGHT decide
to hurt you.

Q: And where's your copyright notice?
A: Oh, yeah.
The Legend of Zelda series is copyright
(c)1986-2003 by Nintendo. Hyrule and
other trademarks belong to Nintendo.
The BRPXQZME Network, BRPXQZME, etc. are
the property of Alfie Parthum, all
rights reserved.
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(c) 2003 The BRPXQZME Network
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