Re: Colored Scripts

En réponse à Patrick Jarrett <seraph@...>:

> Has anyone ever heard of a script which incorporated colors? It was an
> idea
> I had a while ago and have been letting ferment, was just wondering if
> any
> other conlangs, auxlangs or natlangs involved something of the kind.
>
> Thanks,
>
I remember that Egyptian scribes writing in Hieratic or Demotic (on papyrus)
used black for normal text and red for proper names. A kind of capitalisation
done by colour :))) . I remember using this idea in one of my early conlangs
(written with a script that had the ambition of Hangul, but fell short by my
lack of linguistic knowledge at that time). A funny thing I remember about it
was its transliteration, using only capital letters, with an opposition between
typewriter capitals and cursive capitals (I think it marked a long vs. short
opposition). Those were the days... :)))

Christophe.

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