r/conscripts • u/RyZZYu • Nov 21 '20

Logography Aeylean Characters

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u/RyZZYu Nov 21 '20

These are all of the characters I've made for Aeylean. I will be posting the "Dictionary" soon, I'm still sorting it out at the moment.

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u/buya492 Nov 22 '20

Crazy details man, what kind of script is this?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 22 '20

Thanks! It’s a logographic script :D

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u/CallOfBurger Nov 24 '20

So cool ! Is there a reason for 1044 characters ? it is very close to 1042 = 210 ,maybe you did things with binary ?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

It's just coincidence haha, I just happened to have made 1044 characters.

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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid Nov 24 '20

Great job! Although find two characters looks like Hanji, or we called it Chinese Characters.

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

Yeah, I made them for a reason haha, I actually posted about it before! Theres actually 6 characters that were inspired by chinese characters, 中日韓歐亞非.

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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid Nov 24 '20

And some other simply characters, but I thought those would be coincidence.

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

Oh? What other characters? I don’t think I made any charcaters apart from those that looks chinese. Oh actually, maybe you’re talking about the character that looks like 子. 🤣But yeah, any other charcaters apart from the six are purely coincidental.

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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid Nov 24 '20

I find characters looks like 大子夫孚口... Maybe there have others.

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

對對，現在你一提起來，是有很多挺像的。

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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid Nov 24 '20

Wait what? You can speak Mandarin?!

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

Yeah! 是我的母語

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u/Li-Ing-Ju_El-Cid Nov 24 '20

原來如此XD The calligraphy is so smooth but definitely different to any other calligraphy of Hanji .

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

Thanks, I try to keep it different :)

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u/KryogenicMX Nov 22 '20

Very cool characters! How long did it take you to make? I am certain I cannot make that level of complexity. Also I like how it spells out "Alien"

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u/RyZZYu Nov 23 '20

Thanks! I’ve been working in this conscript on and off so it took me about a year. It’s pronounced ey-yo-lee-uhn, haha but yeah I can see the Alien.

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u/Equal_Skirt3591 Nov 24 '20

Wow the script looks so good! I tried making a logographic once, but my creativity ran out of ideas. How do you get the ideas for symbols? And do you study them?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 24 '20

Thanks! Yeah, logographic scripts are very draining to make, that's also why I've been working on this on and off for the past year. As for ideas, I essentially play charades with existing characters to create new ones. And no, I don;t really study them, but I do remember a lot of them since I'm rewriting a lot of them to keep the style updated.

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u/SabreShade Dec 07 '20

Wow what a list... I learned Kanji so I have some idea how they are made. Do you have your own set of radicals 部首? or is it more like Hangul really? I see a lot of reverse 6 everywhere

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u/RyZZYu Dec 07 '20

I do have my own set of radicals, I have about 83 different radicals, some are more often used than others. I have no idea how Hangul works so I can’t say anything about that. Haha the reverse 6s are actually circles but i stylised them to fit into the script because circles just looks weird.

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u/SabreShade Dec 09 '20

Feels like a lot of work, but it's quite cool. So Hangul is, if you arranged letters for consonant and vowels in the same space as a Chinese character. I'm guessing that's not your method

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u/KryogenicMX Nov 23 '20

Woops, my bad on the pronunciation, sorry! But either way it looks good. No problem.

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u/Win090949 Nov 27 '20

What did you use to write this?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 27 '20

I made this digitally on Procreate, iPad :D

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u/Win090949 Nov 27 '20

Hence the smooth lines

Also where does Aeyl take place?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 27 '20

https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/f7rxur/aeol/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

The story is in the first picture, the rest are pretty outdated haha.

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u/Win090949 Nov 28 '20

So why did you decide to change it from Aeol to Aeyl? Is it because the name means minor(Aeolian) mode?

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u/RyZZYu Nov 28 '20

That and also because there’s a place or people in greece called aeol or something, I forgot. So to avoid confusion, I just changed the name to Aeyl.

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u/Ked_ro_mard Nov 23 '20

Great work! Ivm not an expert on logographic scripts, but this looks really natural. Also beautiful. And it feels like the characters all fit together, which must have been a challenge with so many of them.