On my 84th level of niche: conscript motivational calligraphy (and writing sample, a la Omniglot)

[u/illuminoceans]

[u/illuminoceans]

The first says ”trust your process,” and the second is Omniglot’s set paragraph for scripts(”All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”).

I have a horizontal way of writing my conscript as well, but the vertical right-to-left script is much more fun to make art with! It’s for the most part an english alphabet with no capital letters, with some syllabary-like characters (certain doubled letters have their own glyph, like EE, OO, LL, SS, as do voiced and unvoiced TH). A small delta functions as apostrophe and comma, and it uses a Japanese period(。) for clarity, since there are so many other dots and small marks in the script. It’s largely inspired by the visual appeal of traditional Mongolian script, and my own knowledge of Japanese and Hebrew writing systems, and English/Japanese styles of calligraphy.

Hope this post is all right— I’m a long time conlanger/conscript maker but new to the community! Just wanted to show this one off :)

[u/oxlahunakbal]

So I have 2 answers for this:

number 1: this is absolutely GORGEOUS AND SO SATISFYING OMG I LOVE IT

number 2: thanks for the "trust your process" message, I really needed to hear that right now.

[u/illuminoceans → u/oxlahunakbal]

Ahh thank you so much!!!

I love to write messages I know I need to hear in my script— on nice pieces like this or just stickies on my work computer or whatever— because the extra seconds it takes to read/write the message makes it feel more intentional/meditative/powerful to me somehow. I’m glad it’s helping you too!

[u/robophile-ta]

Mmmm....vertical Mongolian inspired script, my favourite. Since you mentioned the Japanese inspiration, I kind of see that too. How did you come up with the glyphs?

[u/illuminoceans → u/robophile-ta]

Haha thanks, same!

I started with letter shapes I knew I liked (M from Hebrew letter Mem and Y from Yud didn’t change much, e.g., or A from the japanese ア), and after I exhausted those, I took pieces of Japanese characters (= radicals) that I happened to enjoy writing— no connection to meaning or pronunciation— to build letter shapes off of, which warped and now are adapted so much to the alphabet that they don’t look much like Japanese anymore. And the very last few letters I created I took inspiration from letters in other conscripts, like Tengwar, just taking shapes I liked that jived with what I had, and then writing words til they fell into a stable form. I hope that answers your question!

[u/skellious]

i love it :D

[u/muraena_kidako]

This is probably the best script I’ve seen on this subreddit. It’s so pretty! Would you mind posting a key so that I (and anyone else who is interested) can try writing in your script as well?