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Re: Kjaginic: 8 points of articulation

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Sunday, September 28, 2008, 20:04
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. > > ... brought to you by the Weeping Elf
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.