Re: Optimum number of symbols

Roger Mills Writes:

>Barry Garcia's Kuraw, for one-- and a beautiful script it is. Perhaps
>he'll post the URL.
Wow, thanks for that vote of confidence, Roger :).


Here's the old url:
http://student.csumb.edu/dh/garciabarryjames/world/images/kurhand.jpg

The script has changed a bit since i first created it. Mostly changes to
a, e, da, pa, and the addition of ja /dZa/. As well as alteration of the
diacritics for u, the accent, and the vowel killer (simplification) But,
by and large it has stayed the same, And i've actually stopped tinkering
with it. The image in the link is the handwritten variety. I've come up
with more formal styles, but i need to scan them in :).

Kuraw was intended to appear as close to an Indic script, but not be
derived from any. It appeared through "Stimulus Diffusion". It however
works exactly like other Indic scripts do, and even the placement of
diacritics follows other scripts closely. I also intended for Kuraw to be
as beautiful as I could make it, keeping it decorative, but not very
complex visually. I think it's a good combination there, and one of the
prettiest scripts i've invented. I frequently write using it.



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