Re: writing system

On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:33:00 +0100, Jörg Rhiemeier
<joerg_rhiemeier@...> wrote:

>
> Yes, this is indeed a drawback of Tengwar.  Most of the letters look
> all too similar.  This is something not easy to avoid when designing
> featural alphabets.  Most of my earlier designs for featural alphabets
> suffered from the same problem.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Jörg.
>
This is why Hangul is successful in preventing a "too uniform" look,
as combined the individual glyphs create something assymetrical and
different enough from other syllables. More too often people want a
featural alphabet that looks more like an alphabet. Also with Hangul,
the saving grace is that brush writing forced assymetry on some of the
glyphs.


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