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- ilmarine0
no way. from red to blue ( with A being red and Z being blue) would just be a gradient. it wouldn't show you anything about the text. you should rather base the coloring on a great theory.
for example:
there is this poe's short story where a very important part id played by a coded text/message. the decoding wokrs on the lines of amount of usages of characters in english language. if i'm not mistaken e or a was the most used. so, in that code the most used symbol has to be e or a and so forth. so, if we gave the most used character the value of red and the least used character the value of blue, we should be able to find out the level of difficutly of the text. also, if janne's idea of using grayscale for symbols would be used it would give us another way of measuring the difficulty.
of course, this is not the only way to colorcode the letters but i strongly suggest you to think on this or something like this. otherwise it would just be an art project.
p.s. the poe's story had something to do with pirates, treasures and some green (?) bugs.