So, I've been scrolling through the top posts and was just mesmerised by the sheer creativity of the people. While, this is the best thing I can come up with even after putting 3 months into it. How can I improve in making neographies?
this is an early example of my script, that was heavily inspired by Semetic scripts, but idk if it get called ( copy ), because it’s similar to Semetic scripts even tho some words are used for different purposes
Yes, I'm not sending the code, if you want to decipher it do it 😃
No, I am not the Дьезрик guy, that's my friend's ss
I Just Started It
I plan to add more to the conlang, but I wanted to share what I have so far.
I wanted to make a mix of Japanese and English. So here's my idea, have some of the "Kanji" from Japanese be in it but have most kanji be completely unique, same for the Kana. The Kana is complete, Kanji is till being worked on and I'm making example sentences in them. Syllabry and Logography.
Here I'm uploading a new version of the first calligraphy I uploaded in my Conlang - Myormana. I've included the breaking down of characters in the word with its meaning. The script - It's a flowing shape based writing system in which different combinations of shapes that emerge as loops of the same line making different sounds. I've used the Latin alphabet to explain the sounds used in this word. I'll upload the script and how it works in another post.
Me and a buddy (my dad) were doing some sort of game I made up where we listen to music and then make a writing system based off the song. I found the results quite intriguing and wanted to show you guys. Mine's on the right, his is on the left.
I want to create an invented alphabet / writing system for a physical diary, mostly for privacy reasons and peace of mind.
I’ve made simple substitution alphabets before, but they always end up feeling too easy to decode if someone spent enough time looking at them.
The problem is that I also want it to stay practical and fluid enough for everyday journaling. I don’t want something so complicated that it takes me 3 hours to read back a single page or makes writing feel exhausting.
I’m neurodivergent and extremely private with my personal space/thoughts, so journaling is one of the only ways I can process things mentally without feeling exposed. Because of that, I’d love to make a system that feels genuinely “mine” and difficult for other people to casually understand.
I normally think/write in Spanish and Catalan, and sometimes English too, so ideally I’d want something flexible enough to work naturally across multiple languages.
Does anyone here have advice for designing a script that is:
- reasonably hard to decode
- fast to write
- fast to read once learned
- and still aesthetically pleasing/natural?
Especially interested in:
- syllabic systems
- shorthand-inspired scripts
- ways to break letter-frequency patterns
- contextual symbol changes
- ligatures/connected writing
- partial vowel removal
- etc.
Would really appreciate hearing from people who’ve designed personal scripts before.
Red lines: Position of the letter during writing
Vowels: The vowels work like accentuations, you put them above the consonants, the vowel change depending in the position of the vowel, before or after the consonant. The vowel should be positioned between the consonants in “Nan”, “Mon”, “Tar”, etc.
Vocabulary: The vocabulary is just brazilian portuguese, so to make a word in this language requires to translate to portuguese first, then writing to the alphabet
for ağlef you can either put the harakats on it or put a vowel after it (i.e. اَ and اێ would be pronounced like ağ and eğ respectively), example word sütlaç - سوٰتلَچ
Последняя песня Моники - Твоя Реальность
Текст:
Каждый день я мечтаю о жизни где мы с тобой вдвоём.
В руке перо, что напишет стих о нас с тобой.
Стекают чернила неспешно,
Взмахни рукой, он напишет к сердцу путь.
Но, в этом мире бесконечных решений,
Что сделать мне, чтоб настал тот самый день?
Что надо мне, чтоб настал тот самый день?
Смогла ли я занятия по душе вам всем подобрать?
Но когда ты здесь, всё, что делаем мы, становится веселей.
Я даже не могу понять свои чувства,
Зачем слова, коль улыбка скажет всё?
И если мир мне не напишет концовку,
Что надо мне, чтоб его заполучить?
Почему к тем, кто дорог, я не могу горечь заглушить?
Любовь - это быть с тобой, или любовью будет отпустить?
Стекают чернила неспешно, как мне любовь в реальность воплотить?
И коль сердцебиения твоего я не слышу,
Что любовью ты зовёшь в своей реальности?
И если не пойму, как любить в твоём мире,
Пущу тебя.
Kia Ora Neographers,
This is another cypher I have been working on. Just for fun this time. It is a simple cypher of the English alphabet where letters are substituted for planets, presented around a central star.
As you can see it is still a work in progress, I still need to develop the punctuation.
I know it's not strictly accurate from an astronomy/cosmology perspective. I prioritised aesthetics rather than committing to hard science - this is the oppositte of how I usually operate so it made things interesting at least!
I always design my Cyphers in Fontlab8, which I have also done in this case, but I have not included any images in here due to the limitation of strictly vertical or horizontal scripts in the software. I think the words look better when drawn by hand in OneNote, as shown in the screenshots.
Interested in your thoguhts!
(Рис. 1)
Стилизованная под восточную эстетику, буква Л.
(Рис. 2-3)
Напрямую заимствованные буквы М и Н.
(Рис. 4)
Слово дня: Архангел.
А(2)+р(1) х(3) а(2)+н(1)+г(1) е(1)+л(1)
(Рис. 5)
Интерфейс на дзюцине
(Рис. 6)
Тот же интерфейс, но в каллиграфии (не удержался и сделал такую версию)
(Рис. 7)
Надпись "Реддит".
(Рис. 8)
Меме
Cyrillic in pen, IPA in pencil, and romanisation didnt fit
86/87 phonemes (depends if you count /ʔ/ as one), and technically typable, just needing a specialised keyboard and i am NOT bothered to make one
The archive does not resist observation.
It resists misplaced observation.
Many rotated the structure searching for altered meaning, unaware that continuity had already remained fixed beside them the entire time.
The witness kept mistaking movement for alignment.
A thing displaced by one quarter does not become different.
Only unrecognizable.
The dragonfly survives each disclosure because it does not belong to the formations. It belongs to the horizon surrounding them.
And horizons were never meant to be translated.
Only faced correctly.
Still—
even a corrected horizon restores nothing to the observer who has not yet determined where silence first failed to remain silent.