Re: Curvey Scripts

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Od: Kristian Jensen <kljensen@...>
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Data: 18 grudnia 1998 06:47
Temat: Curvey Scripts


>Keenan wrote:
>>Nik Taylor wrote:
>>>
>
>>>Well, one man's rubish is another man's treasure, I guess.  I've
>>>always felt that the Arabic script was the most beautiful script
>>>I've ever seen.  All those beautiful curves, I don't think there
>>>are any sharp angles in it, are there?  That's what I don't like
>>>about letters like "k", "A", "L", "N", "M", etc. in English - to
>>>many angles.  On the other hand, a script with *only* sharp
>>>angles (e.g., runes) doesn't look that bad to me (but no
>>>competition to the curvy arabic script).
>
>Yes, the Arabic script is beuatiful. But with regards to curvy
>scripts, I have always thought that the Javanese script was more
>beautiful than Arabic. In fact, the Javanese script is even more
>curvier than Arabic. You'll probably like the Javanese script even
>more if you had the chance to see it.
>
>I'm also not particularly fond of a script that connects _all_ the
>letters. The Javanese script doesn't do this. But it does connect
>_some_ letters (conjunct consonants) and subsrcipts in a vertical
>direction while the rest of the letters are written horizontally.
>

arabic is really nice, but i also like those southern indian scripts (usi=
ng
them is sometimes so strange - maybe it explains indian analphabetism ;) =
)
the only thing i do not like in indian script is writing vowels before
consonant when we say it after it (like devanagari short 'i')...

another beautiful script is chinese (no comments :) )

and hebrew becouse of its very unified(?) shapes...


>This is indeed what the Javanese script does. Each letter always
>starts with an upstroke and ends with a down stroke. Between these
>two strokes are numerous curves in various directions. I have
>followed this model for the Boreanesian script with beautiful
>results, IMHO.
>
incredible! i've never heard about javanese script before! can you enligh=
t
me (or show me web direction where i can find something 'bout)

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