About High Speech Alphabet

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andrecamargo

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I have just a question about the "High Speech", from the Dark tower series.
This serie has a special meaning to me. In part I can say it has helped to save my life.

well, In some parts of the stories, there are somethings written on the High Speech, using some symbols (an weird alphabet).

The afterword of the Winds through the keyhole is an example.

Well, I have a huge "The Dark Tower" based tattoo on my leg (it covers my entire left leg) and I would like to finish it with a quote from the book written on those symbols.
Do you know if exist a place where I can find some quotes from the book written with them?
(I was thinking on "aim with the eye, shoot with the mind, kill with the heart", but who knows? There is a lot of great quotes on the book).

Or maybe a dictionary, where I could find what each symbol means.


Also, would be cool if you created a "fan-album" on this page, with tattoos, drawings, etc made by fans. I am sure there is a lot of stuff


follow an image of the "Winds Through the Keyhole" afterword

Thanks a lot.
And a hail to the person who is behind the Facebook page Stephen King. Very kind person. Always trying to help :)
 

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andrecamargo

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Hi there, I'm not too sure about the High Speech question, (Ms. Mod or Bev Vincent will be better able to answer this for you) but wanted to let you know that we do have an area specifically catering for fan art.
It's called Gallery XIX and can be accessed from the front page of the main site.
Thanks for the answer.
The gallery part the person from the Facebook page has answered me.
I forgot to remove this question from the text.

There are pretty coll stuff there.

If I find The answer about the high speech to finish my tattoo, I will send picture of it :)
Cheers
 

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The font that was used to create that alphabet is called Hoefler. With that installed on your computer, you can type any words you want and it will show up as the High Speech text. For example, I typed Long Days and Pleasant Nights and this is how it displays:

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andrecamargo

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The font that was used to create that alphabet is called Hoefler. With that installed on your computer, you can type any words you want and it will show up as the High Speech text. For example, I typed Long Days and Pleasant Nights and this is how it displays:

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Thank you so much! That is so amazing.

Now I must decide which quote I am going to tattoo =)

Is there a page with quotes from the books?

I have about 15 I have noted when I was reading the books, but I am still searching for some more.

Cheers
 
Ms. Mod,

I was wondering, do you know what King uses for letters q-z?

I finally have the text Hoefler Text Fleurons and Arabesques, but I noticed q-z did not appear in the characters. In Gabrielle Deschain's letter I can tell he used 0 which is the ship for "v" and @ for the "r" which is the moon. Do you or does anyone know what other replacements are used for these letters?

When my fiance and I get married I'm going to try to have a gun personalized to look like one of Roland's and I thought it would be nice to put a personal message and his name somewhere on it, but I'm going to need those letters to do so.

Thank you
 

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The font that was used to create that alphabet is called Hoefler. With that installed on your computer, you can type any words you want and it will show up as the High Speech text. For example, I typed Long Days and Pleasant Nights and this is how it displays:

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Hi Ms Mod,

I've been absent from the message boards for a few years now, and the idea of a tattoo in the High speech bought me back here. I've tried downloading the Hoefler font as you suggested but I just get standard English lettering. Would you happen to know the site you used. If you don't wanna post it here then mail me if thats possible. Thanks for listening...
 
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Hi Ms Mod,

I've been absent from the message boards for a few years now, and the idea of a tattoo in the High speech bought me back here. I've tried downloading the Hoefler font as you suggested but I just get standard English lettering. Would you happen to know the site you used. If you don't wanna post it here then mail me if thats possible. Thanks for listening...


Try google- it is called Hoefler Text ornamental
 

deano

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if you are accepting suggestions i cant think of a better representation of the series than there are other worlds than these.
Thanks, jt, I have since had my tat and it does include the frase - 'There are other worlds than these'. Its still to be finished and I'm gonna add 'UNFOUND' but represented in the high speech (Hofler) text.

Cheers.
 
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Dave Sause

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The font that was used to create that alphabet is called Hoefler. With that installed on your computer, you can type any words you want and it will show up as the High Speech text. For example, I typed Long Days and Pleasant Nights and this is how it displays:

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Actually, that renders as: LONGDAVSANDLOESAN?UNHGT?S where I don't know what the "sun" symbol is - and it's not a T. It looks like the "ship" is both a V and a Y. This is based on the translation of UNFOUND, and I FORGIVE YOU EVERYTHING CAN YOU FORGIVE ME. Apparently the high speech doesn't use punctuation. Gabriel actually writes I FORGIVE OU EVER THUNG CAN OU FORGIVE ME. Perhaps in the Great Speech, they weren't great spellers?
 
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