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Re:Learn to read a binary font by reading a story by Patryk on Friday March 30, 2012 @10:50PM (#3779158)
Why not stack Morse code horizontally? At least Morse code is somewhat designed to take advantage of the frequency distribution of letters (e.g., e is a single dot.)
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Re:Learn to read a binary font by reading a story by tommi on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:13AM (#3779438)
It has been done: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/58144
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Re:Learn to read a binary font by reading a story by trogdoro on Saturday March 31, 2012 @01:43AM (#3779506)
Interesting! Here's a similar version that's more horizontally condensed:

http://dotsies.org/morse

I get asked this a lot, so I threw this together just now.

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Re:Learn to read a binary font by reading a story by trogdoro on Friday March 30, 2012 @10:54PM (#3779167)
Try it out and post a link! It would be interesting to see.
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