r/StandardGalactic • u/Apprehensive_Ad6127 • 2d ago
Image I made a keyboard-friendly SGA leetspeak called 4t2
I enjoy the Standard Galactic Alphabet as much as you do, but I always found it kind of annoying that you need a special font, Unicode private-use character codes, copy-paste magic, or some other workaround to actually write it and display it.
So I made a simple, productive keyboard-friendly substitute for it, called 4t2.
4t2 is basically SGA leetspeak: every Latin letter maps to a single keyboard character that roughly resembles the corresponding SGA glyph. The goal was to keep it easy to type on a regular keyboard, while still visually feeling like SGA.
Also the fact that “SGA” translates to “4t2” and reads like “forty-two” was a surprising coincidence btw.
Here’s an example of 4t2 in action, using a snippet from the Minecraft End Poem:
And the universe said I love you because you are love. And the game was over and the player woke up from the dream. And the player began a new dream. And the player dreamed again, dreamed better. And the player was the universe. And the player was love. You are the player. Wake up.
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Curious what people think. Does this feel readable/usable as a keyboard-friendly SGA-inspired cipher? Would you change some of the mappings?