Updates: Added Greek letters with diacritics
This is a clone of 54 Segment Display RecreationFor the longest time, the idea of musical ciphers/cryptography entertained my brain. So, why not make a proper font out of "readable" music notes?!
I couldn't think of what to do for all the symbols... maybe I should've tried to recreate those with music notes as well? Or throw in a Del Signo and a clef or two perhaps? Maybe not? Feel free to give any suggestions towards my FontStruction (especially for symbols.)
This language doesn’t belong to me, but slightly modified with headcanons. This conlang belongs to Baki (Dynocation), which belongs to the Dynocation series. Go check em out! They’re also on Unvale, just like I am!
(https://unvale.io/wuudmark)
(https://unvale.io/Dynocation)
[français]
une police de caractères basée sur les caractères gothiques textura du XVe siècle
pour l'instant seules les lettres minuscules
même si je trouve les caractères plutôt jolis y'a qqs problèmes de crenage que je lowkey n'ai pas l'énergie de résoudre
l’r de ronde dans &, l’s long dans ~
< pour la ligature be, = pour la ligature bo, > pour la ligature de, [ pour la ligature do, \ pour la ligature pe, ] pour la ligature po, ^ pour la ligature pp, ` pour la ligature ve
des « a » alternatifs dans { et }, un « k » alternatif dans |
pour faire ces ligatures j’aurais pu utiliser uniquement le crénage pour faire se chevaucher les boucles, mais on ne peut crénater les lettres que jusqu’à -10 briques et mes lettres sont trop grandes pour que ça fonctionne
hauteur d’x: 50 briques
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[english]
a font based on textura letterforms from the fifteenth century
only lowercase letters for now
even though i think the letterforms are pretty nice there are some kerning issues that i lowkey dont have the energy to fix
r rotunda in &, long s in ~
< for be ligature, = for bo ligature, > for de ligature, [ for do ligature, \ for pe ligature, ] for po ligature, ^ for pp ligature, ` for ve ligature
alternate "a"s in { and }, alternate "k" in |
to make those ligatures i could have just used kerning to make the bowls overlap but you can only kern the letters up to -10 bricks and my letters are too huge for that to work
x-height: 50 bricks
I created this script for creatures with talon-like digits, such as dragons and lizardfolk. It looks best in larger fonts as the characters are easier to differentiate and the details are more obvious.
The characters are written using three talons simultaneously (thumb, index, and middle digit). There are three possible marks: Point (using the tip of the talon), Nail (curling the talon inward to pressdown with what would be the fingernail), and Slash (drawing a line inward toward the palm with the tip of the talon).
I organized this along the standard alphabet, matching the characters by how easy I found them to make with my own hand to the standard use frequency of English, though I imagine this would work better as a character/symbolic script than strictly representing the alphabet.
With three marks per character and three types of strokes, we get 27 possible combinations for characters. Conveniently that means 1 per letter of the alphabet, with one left over. I added a single character that uses a fourth stroke, Turn (rotating the tip of the talon in a curve to the right), for all three strokes. This fourth stroke did not work well with the other three to make more combinations, but is easy to perform with all three digits. I mapped the 27th left over character and the Turn character to the Period and Comma keys for ease of typing, though I suggest that they not be used for those purposes.
I imagine this to be an expedient language to write, as each character can be written with a single action, allowing for a proficient writer to scribe multiple characters a second. This would be work better as a top-down script rather than a left-right, as the characters would be easier to distinguish in that orientation (and I also imagine it would be easier for a quadrupedal dragon to write in rows parallel to its body rather than perpendicular).
Outside of this as a written font, I also imagine that it could be used as a form of sign language, or even used on the body of another as a form of silent, tactile comunication.
For convenience, I mapped the 4 triple characters ( all Point, Nail, Slash, or Turn) to they !, @, #, and $ keys for convenience rather than purpose, should you want to meddle with it. You can copy and paste an part of a symbol into another character editor and it will keep the same position.