What’s even tougher than designing a language?
Designing the script for it.
I spent a goodly amount of time brainstorming on my alphabet today. In the end, I came up with 21 glyphs that will be the characters of the script… Except that I think they don’t really match each other stylistically. So there’s still a lot of work ahead of me. Still, I wanted to post a short sample just so that I have something to show for the many hours spent.
Script - First Sample
It reads “Arnâron”, of course.
Does it make sense that the “A” and “O” kind of look very similar to what’s in the latin alphabet? Well – the triangle and circle are just too simple to exclude them. And I figured since I’ll include them, it does make sense to use them in this way instead of confusing people by making the o-glyph stand for, say, “e”.
That said, it is very much a work in progress, and I am sure I’ll change a lot of characters around.
Thursday, 21. August 2008
You are truly amazing. I’m impressed.
Thursday, 21. August 2008
Thanks… the script is still being worked on. It’s actually eating way too much time because I never seem to be satisfied with the letters. I really need to spend energy on something else or I won’t have a single posting in World Building Month showcase 3 ;-)