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Fossidarity OP wrote (edited )

I really like how the letters merge together to form a symbol, maybe that alone could be a basis to create a font from, maybe with ligatures? I think Gestalt theory could be a good basis for this..

I would love to see the .ttf font! How did you make it? Did you use FontForge?

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yaaqov wrote (edited )

Could you elaborate a little more on this idea for a font?

Okay, I'm happy to hear it!

Well I've been teaching myself to use fontforge in the last few weeks, but what I'll be sending to you was created solely on fonstruct, which is very limited in that you can only draw from a finite set of shapes and set them on a grid, with no bezier curves or anything, but that's just fine for a script made of squares haha.

(I also made a "helping font" just like Dotsies uses—that is, a replacement of the blocks in the columns with the letters (in my case, IPA) that they represent—and that could really use a re-do in something with real drawing capabilities. It's... rough. You'll see.)

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Fossidarity OP wrote

I don't really have it fleshed out in my mind but probably somewhere between Arabic and Chinese? So instead of static symbols like in Chinese or long "words" like in Arabic short symbols but made up of a combination of letter-pairs so it's mapable to the alphabet.

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yaaqov wrote

This sounds neat! I'd love to see anything you come up with, if you feel like posting.

Sorry for the delay wrt my font by the way. Been pretty busy and tired lately, I hope to get something soon!

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