Break it into pieces.
A custom byte-pair tokenizer uses the first 8,192 mergeable entries from o200k_base, with its original pretokenization rules. All 256 single-byte values are covered.
A STUDY IN MACHINE LANGUAGE VOL. 01
An alphabet
from the
other side.
8,192 original glyphs. A real tokenizer.
A reversible way to write something alien.
0000—8191 HUMAN WORDS. UNFAMILIAR FORMS.
CHARACTER FIELD / 13 BITS
8,192unique glyphs
213vocabulary entries
1 : 1token → glyph
100%reversible bytes
01 / TRANSMISSION STUDIO
Your words.
Another form.
Write anything. Each token becomes its own glyph.
Words can split into smaller pieces; spaces and punctuation count, too.
UTF-8 → ACCELERANDO-8192
ALIEN OUTPUT
Loading the alphabet…
Preparing the tokenizer…Runs entirely in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server.
02 / THE CHARACTER ARCHIVE
Every token.
Its own mark.
Stepped corners, open shapes, and branching strokes.
Select a character to inspect its token, bytes, and vector.
03 / FIRST TRANSMISSION
Accelerando,
transcribed.
Grimes & Vadakin, written in the glyph alphabet.
34 lines. 398 tokens. 132 distinct characters.
01 / THE SONG EXPAND ↗THE FOUR-IMAGE EDITION
A song.
An entire
writing system.
The song uses a fraction of the alphabet. Three companion plates contain all 8,192 token–glyph pairs, exactly once.
Download all four images ↓Four 6144 × 6144 PNGs. Each under 5 MB.04 / UNDER THE SURFACE
A visual alphabet.
A precise system.
Not a translation, and not an embedding model. Accelerando-8192 changes how text is represented while keeping the original bytes intact.
Make the mapping fixed.
Token ID equals glyph ID. Character 500 always represents token 500, in every message. The full vocabulary exists independently of any song or sentence.
Give every piece a form.
Each glyph is a distinct connected shape on a compact grid. Horizontal, vertical, and 45-degree strokes preserve the alphabet’s angular character.
8,192 is the vocabulary size, not an embedding dimension. Rotations and reflections may be different glyphs. Distinct shapes are not a claim of equal readability.
05 / TAKE IT WITH YOU
The whole
language kit.
Use the font, inspect the vocabulary, or build your own experiment. Everything needed to reproduce the encoding is here.
01ZIP ↓02PNG / ZIP ↓03SVG ↓04TTF ↓05JSON ↓06SVG / ZIP ↓07SVG ↓
Complete project package
Font, tokenizer, full atlas, song transcript, and Python encoder / decoder
The four-image edition
The song and three atlas plates, in upload order
Complete vocabulary atlas
All 8,192 pairs in one infinitely scalable sheet
Accelerando-8192
Installable font · Unicode private-use range U+F0000–U+F1FFF
Tokenizer & permanent key
Every token’s exact bytes and matching glyph ID
Every glyph, individually
8,192 transparent SVG files for design, print, and your own projects
Accelerando vector specimen
The complete glyph transcript as a scalable vector artwork