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Re: writing system

From:B. Garcia <madyaas@...>
Date:Tuesday, January 4, 2005, 13:21
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. -- You can turn away from me but there's nothing that'll keep me here you know And you'll never be the city guy Any more than I'll be hosting The Scooby Show Scooby Show - Belle and Sebastian