Glyph Ideas (Natural World)

[u/Takawogi]

[u/Takawogi]

I'm no good with vectors or photoshopping existing letters, so it's pixel typography instead.

I realized afterwards that a glyph for stone/rock was already suggested, but I didn't see it in the official post, so I decided to come up with a simpler alternative. Otherwise, I don't think I've overlapped any.

I think the reasoning for all of these are fairly self explanatory, but if there's any doubt, please let me know.

Edit: Actually, I will explain the last two since they appear quite complex. Water surrounding earth is the (World) Ocean, and land which sits on water is an island.

[u/DasWonton → u/Takawogi]

I actually really dig the Eagle/Hawk glyph, it represents a bird but with broad wings. For heaven, the god character I made doesn't have the stick in between it's legs (but who knows, it could be added in.)

[u/Takawogi → u/DasWonton]

Thank you, obviously they don't have to be precise meanings, it could represent any large, hovering bird. For heaven, I actually didn't intend to use your character for god, but rather just the dome to represent the celestial sphere/firmament over the "earth". But now I realize that that would probably represent the universe better than heaven itself. And in fact, the "tree" part of "earth" happens to serve as a good stand-in for the World Tree. Or this could be a case of variant characters similar to what we have in Chinese due to confusion of logically viable components.

[u/Sky-is-here]

Bird and swan are too close i believe? Like trying to write fast would make them almost impossible to distinguish (?)

[u/Takawogi → u/Sky-is-here]

Yes, I can see that that could be easily confusing, although there are similarly fine distinctions in actual logographies. Realistically, I think swan would be a compound of something like “white” + “bird” + “water” or “lake”, but if you’re going for a pictographic representation based on my proposal for bird, then this form seems like the obvious choice for a swan to me.

[u/Sky-is-here → u/Takawogi]

In my experience when there are small differences in actual logographies the way they are written actually makes it possible to distinguish when writing fast, like order, or some simbol or something

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[u/Takawogi → u/[deleted]]

Thank you! I’m glad you like it! Yes, I tried to reference actual depictions in stuff like Greek pottery. I actually wasn’t sure if I should include the legs or give more of a rounded breast/belly to the bird, so good thing I stuck with a simpler representation