I have spotted attempts at conlangs in some fanfics but they looked quite amateurish.Glyphr Studio is an Electron-based desktop application for the online platform with the same name that allows you to create and edit fonts. I did find attempts to turn these into full scripts but nothing that's caught on. There's also a series of ten hieroglyphs used in early episodes and some angular letters used in some later episodes. The way they do text in the show is usually to just squash a bunch of latin (or greek) letters together, flip some of them over and fill in some of the space between them until you can barely make out what it says. Designing a conscript for a children's cartoon might be a bit overkill, though not unheard of. That'd also work great together with the way letters are arranged in Brahmic scripts such as Yeah, the fandom's pretty crazy. As for consonants I'll just go the Tengwar route: have one set of systematically formed letters and one set of left-over letters with arbitrary designs to break up the monotony. I varies quite a lot between dialects and it just drives me mad that there isn't a full set of short and long vowel pairs. What frustrates me most about the English phonology is the messy vowel system. My script does not have capital letters so I just use those for the extra sounds and some of the diacritics. >_< As for alternatives to Fontforge I'm currently looking into two other free tools: BirdFont and Glyphr There are a lot more sounds in English than letters in the alphabet. I want to do strokes of varying width but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do it. I'm already running into limitation with Inkscape. My own set of letters using the same basic components – possibly featural but probably not. Larger diacritics and increased distance. There are two sets of vowel diacritics: the regular ones based on Shan and the overly cutesy ones consisting of hearts, gems and celestial bodies. The twelve vowels of RP have been merged into ten. Initial consonants are written as conjuncts while final consonants are mostly written as a linear sequence. There's no inherent vowel and it thus works more like Tolkien's Tengwar. The script is used to write English phonetically and works as a not-really-an-abugida. Paths that are imported will contain several errors that need to be fixed and however hard I try I can't seem to adjust widths and bearings in a way that makes sense.Ĭurrently the script takes about 90% of its letters straight from Burmese while the vowels are more closely inspired by Shan. The constant crashes are the least of my problems. Fontforge on the other hand is a constant source of frustration. These elements in turn mostly consist of circle sectors merged together. Designing the letters in Inkscape was easy since they consist of a few standard elements combined at different angles. Inkscape and Fontforge looked like the perfect combination for a cheapskate like me. Once satisfied I set out to find a bunch of tools to create "real" fonts. So I used FontStruct to create a prototype with mostly 5×5 and 7×5 letters to make the most out of the rounded corners. There was just one problem: FontStruct doesn't do these circular letters. My inspiration comes from the Burmese script and a few other closely related ones that all kind of look like hoof prints stringed together at different angles. I got this crazy idea that I wanted to create a script that looked like it had been created by tiny pastel horses (you're allowed to laugh).
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