Re: Kuraw Update!

CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
>        *snicker* Now where have I heard *THAT* before? :)
>        It does look nice, although would you mind creating a sample text
>with it, so
>that we can see how it looks in written form?
Hehe, well, it took me about a year to FINALLY come down to glyphs that
make me happy. I will do a sample text, but i was up until 4:00 AM working
on that (surprizingly i made it to work on time). I had started on
something, but figured i did need sleep ;).


>In my mind, it looks like a
>weird cross between Thai and Georgian--or perhaps Telugu.
Thanks! The hand written script looks much more like the Insular SE Asian
scripts (characters fully rounded, less angular). The square style there
is more thai influenced.


>        BTW, I poked around your sight and found some interesting scripts;
>aubichara.jpg looks like a script I once tried to create (a more "frilly"
>hangul-like script) and barry.jpg and garcia.jpg look familiar--did you
>post
>them to the list before? Are these prior versions of Kuraw, or another
>script
>altogether? Details welcome!
>        :Peter

I had posted them before. Some of the images there are outdated (one of
the hand drawn script examples), but the calligraphic looking examples
(aubichara) for instance are correct.  My name and last name are also.
They are the same script, but a decorative brush calligraphy style.


There's three main styles (and a few lesser styles):

Calligraphic - Ornate, sometimes hard to decipher, as glyph orientation
for aesthetic purposes is favored over legibility. Sometimes the glyph a
diacritic goes with isnt apparent at first glance.

Block/Square print style - Very regular, angular, and simple to print. The
example I gave is the more "arial" like style. There is an additional
(read,havent created it) with variance in line thickness for better
legibility.

Handwritten - Simple, effective, but sometimes messy and horribly
illegible :) (as most handwriting is). When done neatly it is very simple
and clean, and even pretty. Does not use ligatures informally, but in
formal writing they abound (there's a TON).




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