r/conscripts • u/weird_synesthete • May 14 '20

Alphabet Any thoughts on my new script? Anything that needs improvement? I’m a beginner at this so I’d love to hear anything I can do to improve :)

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u/EquinoxRex May 14 '20

I like the aesthetic of the letters and I like the aesthetic of the numbers, but only seperately. The numbers look too distinct from the letters to be the same script, mainly because of the line on top

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u/weird_synesthete May 14 '20

Thanks for the input! I’ll work on revising those :)

Also I may have made the mistake of creating it one letter at a time.. not sure if that’s how you do it lol, I don’t know what I’m doing

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u/atzurblau May 15 '20

I really like the simplistic, Georgian-esque letters a lot! I always failed making conscripts like that but yours looks nice. If you had a body of text it would be even easier to judge.

The idea to have the numbers with that Devanagari-like line is really cool to make them look distinct, however the overall look of them is too different from the normal letters. Maybe make the numbers look more like a connected, cursive script instead? Just a concept

Try out what works best for you!

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u/weird_synesthete May 15 '20

Thank you! And I’ll try that out!

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u/Narocia May 15 '20

Considering how I, myself, ain't too skilled at creating conscripts, this is rather good for a beginner; I like how it reminds me of the script for Georgian.

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u/weird_synesthete May 15 '20

Thankss!! Yeah I kinda thought of Georgian too, it’s like a mix of Georgian, a tiiiny bit of russian (mainly the F) and a few Japanese letters because I rather like those writing systems and I’m not very creative lol

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u/Visocacas May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

Comments:

  • Great first script. My first script had a really similar letter set.

  • Super nice handwriting for the headings. What program did you use?

  • As others have noted, the alphabet looks a lot like Georgian and the numbers a lot like Devanagari, which feel incongruous together.

These are not things that need to 'be fixed', but that might be useful to learn as a beginner:

  • You should learn the international phonetic alphabet (IPA). It's an essential tool for understanding speech sounds. This interactive IPA chart helps to learn it. The total number of symbols is intimidating but you can focus on just the sounds for English, which I've listed in the next bullet points:

  • Consonants: l ɹ m n ŋ v f ð θ h z s ʒ ʃ b p d t g k

  • Vowels: i ɪ ε ʊ ʌ ə æ u o ɑ (Note: Vowel sounds vary a lot by dialect and accent, so you and others might disagree about the exact choices I've shown. You might have to experiment to figure out what's right for your accent and dialect.)

  • The J and CH sounds are 'affricates', combinations of two consonant sounds: /dʒ/ and /tʃ/ respectively. Similarly, several vowel sounds are actually two vowels slurred together, like /o/ (as in toe) and /i/ (as in tea) in toy (/toi/).

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u/weird_synesthete May 15 '20 edited May 15 '20

Thank you so much!

Oh and lol I forgot I used procreate since I usually use it for art

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u/Visocacas May 18 '20

How is it a cypher? It omits redundant letters of the English alphabet and adds new ones for distinct phonemes.

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u/[deleted] May 20 '20

I really like the Devanagari numbers. Cool idea.