elvish
<character> 1. The Tengwar of Feanor, a table of letterforms resembling
the beautiful Celtic half-uncial hand of the "Book of Kells". Invented and
described by J.R.R. Tolkien in "The Lord of The Rings" as an orthography for his
fictional "elvish" languages, this system (which is both visually and
phonetically elegant) has long fascinated hackers (who tend to be intrigued by
artificial languages in general). It is traditional for graphics printers,
plotters, window systems, and the like to support a Feanorian typeface as one of
their demo items. By extension, the term might be used for any odd or unreadable
typeface produced by a graphics device.
2. The typeface mundanely called "B"ocklin", an art-decoish display font. [Why?]
[Jargon File]
(1998-04-28)
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