Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation

Jörg Rhiemeier wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> On Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:20:39 -0400, Herman Miller wrote:
>
>> http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/kjaginic-8.png
>
> Nice, but like so many featural scripts, it suffers from the
> problem that the letters look all very similar to each other,
> I think.  It is often easy to confuse letters (as with, for
> instance, Tengwar), but that may only be a problem for people
> not familiar with the script.  For those not familiar with
> them, scripts such as Arabic or Mxedruli also have many
> letters which look "too much alike" (despite not being
> featural).  On the plus side, your script opens up new
> possibilities for ambigrams, with the mirror image of each
> letter being another letter.
>
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They do look very similar when they're all lined up like that. I think
they're easier to read in the context of an actual text. Here's some
Tirelat text in the most recent version of Kjaginic script.

http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/kjaginic-example2.png

It still needs some work, but it's starting to look more readable.