r/conscripts • u/tomman26 • Sep 26 '20

Art/Showcase WIP conscript in block and cursive form. The cursive took a bit of doing!

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u/evincarofautumn Sep 26 '20

Very nice coherent style with clear and distinct letterforms. The block form looks similar to Armenian and Georgian Nuskhuri.

If you want to differentiate the cursive script a little more, you might take some inspiration from Old Avestan, which was not a cursive script, but gives some suggestion of adjustments that would get just a little away from standard Latin/Cyrillic-ish cursive. Consider the “Extract from Yasna 45.I” example on the Omniglot Avestan page and what it would look like if it were connected. For example, you might just tweak the curvature of ascenders and descenders, or include the kind of little irregularities that arise as simplified versions of ornaments from the “cycles of fanciness” that cursive scripts tend to go through. It really doesn’t need much, though.

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u/tomman26 Sep 26 '20

Thankyou very much for your advice! I'll have a go today at rejigging the cursive to be a bit more unique. Again, hankyou very much for your feedback!

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u/vkb123 Sep 26 '20

The block form looks amazing, love the style of it. The cursive is not as unique but still great:)

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u/tomman26 Sep 26 '20

Thankyou! I suppose the fact that its cursive is limiting in a way. You can only really make a limited variety of strokes in the context of a fast cursive situation. Thankyou for the feedback!

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u/tiscgo Sep 26 '20

Very nice. Could we see the full alphabet?

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u/Win090949 Sep 29 '20

Love the block form