Sunday, November 15, 2009

Phaistos Disk synchronicity

Yesterday I first heard of the Phaistos Disk (considered by some to be the earliest book) in a document designed to teach high school students about artists' books. Today while idly trying to display a random Unicode character in Google Docs - the kind that looks like this
if you don't have the right font installed - I came upon an enchanting set of glyphs from the Phaistos Disk. If only I could figure out how to display them on my computer. I installed the Code2001 font but no joy. Especially love the tattooed head which should look like this . . .

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