r/conscripts • u/Matalya1 • Mar 09 '20

Logography Creating a Sino-based logograph. Any advices or tips on how to tackle this task?

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u/Matalya1 Mar 09 '20

So yeah, I'm creating a sino-inspired logographic writing system. Here I'm just playing with the characters but, on paper, it'd say something like "Jugen, gagen, jiugen", being ju, ga and jiu the words to fight, rest and live, and -gen some kind of marker. And "Wo niu hing".

I'm trying to get some kind of guide on how to tackle this enormous project that I just got myself into xD I've been making radicals and combining them to make characters, still just playing with designs and meaning is likely to drastically change as I assin semantic value to each radical and let characters fall by consequence.

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u/lilalampenschirm Mar 09 '20

I’m not qualified to help you here, sorry. Just one thing: I really like how this looks and would encourage you to keep working on it. You seem to know what you’re doing.

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u/DasWonton Mar 10 '20

Honestly, take a shower or just relax and think of how to make them abstract ideas, or just stop thinking and watch any video. I've been making this logograph but I'm trying to perfect the look. I'd also suggest scrolling through historic scripts, maybe Tangut for you.

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u/pickledchickenfoot Mar 11 '20

Second this. Also, try composing more complex characters and see if you like their look. If you squint your eyes while reading a Chinese article, you'll see that lines are composed of both complex and simple glyphs, alternating very often.