Random brands/logos in my conlang script, I know some look crap but the fonts were difficult, but I tried my best 😭.
Note that:
Google is transcribed as /gūūgl/ (gu:gəl)
Wikipedia is transcribed as /wihkihpedia/ (wɪˈkɪpɛdɪa)
Although the difference isn't really important!
This has been so fun because I have unintentionally been replicating a real sort of evolution of this English script. Even the printed form is so much from how it began and I assume it will continue changing the more I use it. Here's a letter I wrote to a friend; she knows I like scripts and linguistics in general but doesn't have a key and I'd like to hear her reaction 😂
I've been creating this whole neography for a video game project that I gave up on... But I liked it so I try to write a bit everyday using it. Here are the first two entries up to now.
If you wonder how it works : basically, the bigger glyphs are consonnants sounds and the smaller ones are vowel sounds.
There is a numeral system (you can see dates on some of the notes)
Weirdcase adds additional cases to the English Alphabet. It has Uppestcase, Middlecase & Lowestcase. (This was based of @P1X3Lxd)
Uppestcase is used at the start of a sentence
Middlecase is used at the start of a word. It will replace the space between words.
(Uppercase would now be only used for proper nouns or acronyms)
Lowestcase replaces the period, comma, colon & semi-colon. It would be at the end of the word that should be before the punctuation.
I woke up and had this idea out of nowhere so I decided to see what it looks like.
I first shared the idea of a minimalist writing system made entirely of dots and lines, written vertically. After several iterations and feedback from the community, I've completed the first public version of it: Linera.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on the design.
I**’m still testing it out and it’s a work in progress. However, here’**s a sample text in Kıştöt. Please leave me opinions on how to improve it.
I just put some random thing together.
The idea is to create a script that's built almost entirely from vertical lines. Characters are distinguished by line count, height, dot placement, and small breaks rather than unique shapes. The goal is to see whether such a minimalist writing system can still be readable.
This is a sample of Outlander, one of the xenolangs I'm working on. As with the other Outladner example and the Commonthroat samples I posted a few weeks ago, this is a "reverse abjad". This time I tried sticking together curves in Affinity. I think it turned out pretty good. Here's a gloss of the text.
qBF khj Gkq pan sgsf Gkq
qBF khj Gkq-∅ pan sgsf Gkq-∅
sky empty stand-ACT 1pl alone stand-ACT
The skies are empty, we are alone.
I'm in the process of designing a script for my conlang, and I am struggling to pin down the aesthetic / feeling that captures how the conlang is used in stories.
I just wanted to get some feedback on how people feel about this script so far, and what it might bring to mind. Thank you.
Have been tweaking and changing but now I considérant it done. Can you decipher the provided word ? =)
Sorry if this is the wrong sub, I was digging on my farm and found this note between two rocks? I’m very curious as to what it says
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Actually take 5 or somesuch, but it's the second version I've posted here after "pixel calligraphy".
This sample text is article 1 of the UHDR in Yorùbá. The second slide is my handwriting. The 3rd slide are the new and improved diacritics. Below each example on the 3rd slide is how that word or syllable would be written in standard Yorùbá using the Latin script.
I don't actually have a font yet because I keep changing the letters, I just drew all of this in a pixel art software.
A funny thing about creating a conscript is that you can't look up typographic conventions to make a "professional" font. You just have to trial and error your way into seeing what letter components are necessary for legibility.
Like how the decender on handwritten "a" flicks all the way back up and can fit nasal diacritics inside that bowl, but that would've made the "typed" glyph unreasonably wide do it's reduced almost to a straight line.
In the hypothetical world where this script is enjoying the same kind of success as N'ko or Adlam, this would have the same vibes as that font Nintendo uses for everything.
I designed a Paper Flag Script where each letter is represented by a combination of colour and pattern. The current version uses five colours and five patterns to encode the alphabet.
You can use string and paper flags or simply do it on paper.
I'm considering whether to expand it with different flag shapes.
