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Description I've left the full-view at maximum quality so that the detail of individual characters can be seen more clearly I know I could've done that more easily by uploading it as a flat Photoshop file, but I thought this way was more fun, artistic and interesting
This is the ancient Solarian alphabet, and is concept art once again for my Lee Altar story, which is set on the fantasy continent of Solaris.
These symbols will probably be seen in later illustrations that I intend to do Some of the characters bare very obvious familiarity to their Latin alphabet counterparts, whereas some are for less obvious.
The layout is as follows:

A _ a _ K _ k _ U _ u _ full stop _ 1
B _ b _ L _ l _ V _ v _ Start speech mark _ 2
C _ c _ M _ m _ W _ w _ End speech mark _ 3
D _ d _ N _ n _ X _ x _ Start quotation mark _ 4
E _ e _ O _ o _ Y _ y _ End quotation mark _ 5
F _ f _ P _ p _ Z _ z _ Comma _ 6
G _ g _ Q _ q _ _ _ _ _ Apostrophe _ 7
H _ h _ R _ r _ _ _ _ _ Semicolon _ 8
I _ i _ S _ s _ _ _ _ _ Colon _ 9
J _ j _ T _ t _ _ _ _ _ Dash _ 0
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Ellipsis
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open bracket
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Close bracket
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Question mark
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Exclamation mark

I was actually thinking of turning it into a computer font, but I'm not sure just yet.
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Comments: 32

gemando [2008-10-06 21:10:40 +0000 UTC]

wow, this is so well thought out, and just generally cool

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Alias-Aether In reply to gemando [2008-10-07 06:59:15 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! (you're the first person not to complain about it being hard to read/write or something lol)

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gemando In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-07 20:58:06 +0000 UTC]

lol only because I wont have to do it!

Besides, there are harder languages to write... I imagine elvish is pretty challenging!

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Alias-Aether In reply to gemando [2008-10-08 06:53:51 +0000 UTC]

lol True, but I when I first wrote them down they were much simpler I just supped them up for the digital calligraphy version. I guess once I make it into a font no one will have to write it except printers

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gemando In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-08 19:08:59 +0000 UTC]

Exactly

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Joey-713 [2008-10-05 20:25:13 +0000 UTC]

Wow, very nice indeed, and i think all of them would be difficult to write fast, never mind the F lol
It would make a great computer font though
x x

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Alias-Aether In reply to Joey-713 [2008-10-06 05:38:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you and lol, the people of the past couldn't really write fast anyway because they used stone tablets and whatnot
xXx but yes, I'm glad it looks nice

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Joey-713 In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-12 10:09:51 +0000 UTC]

haha yes i guess you have a point there...
it would be cool to see them write fast on stone tablets haha, but i think that may just be impossible
xxx

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Alias-Aether In reply to Joey-713 [2008-10-13 06:52:08 +0000 UTC]

Omg, a super-sonic monk. That would be amazing lol because, you know, they take like 100 years just to copy one book or something. I sincerely hope they never had to write down interrogations.

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Joey-713 In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-13 23:55:14 +0000 UTC]

lol, yeah, i bet there was one secretly
oh, ouch, yeah, that would be pretty bad =/
lol
x

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Alias-Aether In reply to Joey-713 [2008-10-14 06:01:51 +0000 UTC]

*envisions the MegaMonk*
but fortunately we have technology now, so I'm making use of it.

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samothmcknight [2008-10-04 23:11:50 +0000 UTC]

Ive been reading your book, and yes...you MUST continue it!

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Alias-Aether In reply to samothmcknight [2008-10-05 16:05:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you I do intend to continue because I've gotten so far this time and people to have a lot of interest. Tell me when you've read what I've sent you and I'll send you a bit more that I've written

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samothmcknight In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-09 00:55:46 +0000 UTC]

You may wait until this weekend, this exams are eating my brains X.x

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Alias-Aether In reply to samothmcknight [2008-10-09 21:45:34 +0000 UTC]

All right, fair enough lol College is quite taxing at the moment too. Just let me know when

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hidden92 [2008-10-04 22:37:25 +0000 UTC]

nice - the lettering looks really crisp, also the grain and light in the wood looks good

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Alias-Aether In reply to hidden92 [2008-10-05 16:08:32 +0000 UTC]

Thanks It probably looks crisp because each letter is about 550x550. The book and table was just an addition to present it better

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Onixstar1 [2008-10-04 12:53:13 +0000 UTC]

id use it, if it was a font. Not that im sure many would be able to read. Nice Work =]

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Alias-Aether In reply to Onixstar1 [2008-10-04 22:38:51 +0000 UTC]

Thanks =] I've already made a few words by piecing them together on Photoshop and it looks pretty good, but I'd much prefer it as a font to save time.

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ALHAGR1 [2008-10-04 08:41:33 +0000 UTC]

It's prettyprettywow!!

*thinks* I suppose I could do this with the Ancient Greek alphabet...

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Alias-Aether In reply to ALHAGR1 [2008-10-04 22:35:14 +0000 UTC]

Well, many of the ones that aren't based on the Latin alphabet are based on the Greek one instead so I have a mix. Some examples are 'h' which looks a lot like the lower case of the Greek letter Eta, 'S' is supposed to be upper case Sigma joint onto a mirror of itself, and 's' is lower case sigma exaggerated

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Sheacka [2008-10-04 02:33:02 +0000 UTC]

you should.

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Alias-Aether In reply to Sheacka [2008-10-04 22:37:31 +0000 UTC]

I will as soon as I figure out how to lol

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Sheacka In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-04 22:58:05 +0000 UTC]

yeah...

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Etheriana [2008-10-03 21:49:41 +0000 UTC]

I bet that that 'F' is hard to write fast...

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Alias-Aether In reply to Etheriana [2008-10-03 21:54:03 +0000 UTC]

Well, when I hand write it I use a simple version of certain letters so it's easier and faster

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Etheriana In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-04 08:53:01 +0000 UTC]

Ah, ok, got it...

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Jerryrocks4eva [2008-10-03 21:23:19 +0000 UTC]

*cough* wow I've never seen anything like this before!!

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Alias-Aether In reply to Jerryrocks4eva [2008-10-03 21:54:26 +0000 UTC]

Don't mock me lol

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Jerryrocks4eva In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-03 21:57:59 +0000 UTC]

lol I just meant that you had shown me before xd

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Alias-Aether In reply to Jerryrocks4eva [2008-10-03 22:24:57 +0000 UTC]

I know lol

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Jerryrocks4eva In reply to Alias-Aether [2008-10-03 22:26:31 +0000 UTC]

oh ok, uhh ignore above then, i appeared as the one out of it

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