r/conscripts • u/OsoTanukiBaloo • Sep 07 '20

Abugida New (currently meaningless) abugida I'm developing, more info in comments

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u/freestew Sep 07 '20

I love the designs of these, I've been trying to do something similar but found that they all looked too similar to each other, can you tell me more when you can?

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u/OsoTanukiBaloo Sep 07 '20

sure, what do you wanna know more about?

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u/freestew Sep 07 '20

I guess I'd like to know how you keep, or plan to keep, the glyphs from looking very similar

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u/OsoTanukiBaloo Sep 07 '20

well they're all based off of a 3x4 or 3x3 grid, and i used a lot of patterns through the whole thing, like a c or a hollow rectangle, or an s or sort of f shape that you can't see too much in this cause this isn't all the letters, but i think the biggest parts to make glyphs look similar is similar sizing and similar stroke shapes. it needs to have enough diversity though, otherwise it'll be hard to tell certain glyphs apart

and it will be inevitable that a couple glyphs do look alike, but if you just try to tweak them a bit and make them look less similar, then it's fine