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Description
This text art story is "The Plane Tree" from Aesop's fables. It is a classic story demonstrating how unappreciative people can be once they take something for granted.

The text is all drawn in Dscript, which is a legible alphabetical 2D writing system. For more info checkout the Dscript intro PDF

Original Story Text:

THE PLANE TREE

Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.

"How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."

"Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"

Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.

Each "word glyph" in this example is optimized for a set standard or writing dimensions and pen stroke conservation. There are many many possible form, shapes and variations for each word.

Dscript is a "constructed script". Constructed scripts are invented writing systems. "invented writing system" is most commonly intended to mean "invented in a single generation as opposed to evolving over many generations", natlangs(Natural Language) are what we call languages that have evolved for many generations, conlangs(Constructed language) are what we call the new ones.

Dscript was originally a "directional constructed script", this means it could be written both vertically and horizontally with a single pen stroke design. Over time it evolved into its current form, a "dimensional constructed script" which allows the "letter strings" of the directions script to be wrapped up, contorted, forked, and even have letters placed inside of other letters.

List of key Dscript materials

The Dscript introduction PDF
The first Dscript site, Dscript.ca, with manual, video lessons, tools, generator, etc..
The Dscript Facebook Artist Page
The Dscript DeviantArt Page (Lots ofcontent, large files)
Dscript for conlangers and other languages
Dscript alphabet re-indexing guide
Dscript alphabet re-indexing video tutorial

Description
This text art story is "The Plane Tree" from Aesop's fables. It is a classic story demonstrating how unappreciative people can be once they take something for granted.

The text is all drawn in Dscript, which is a legible alphabetical 2D writing system. For more info checkout the Dscript intro PDF

Original Story Text:

THE PLANE TREE

Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.

"How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."

"Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"

Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.

Each "word glyph" in this example is optimized for a set standard or writing dimensions and pen stroke conservation. There are many many possible form, shapes and variations for each word.

Dscript is a "constructed script". Constructed scripts are invented writing systems. "invented writing system" is most commonly intended to mean "invented in a single generation as opposed to evolving over many generations", natlangs(Natural Language) are what we call languages that have evolved for many generations, conlangs(Constructed language) are what we call the new ones.

Dscript was originally a "directional constructed script", this means it could be written both vertically and horizontally with a single pen stroke design. Over time it evolved into its current form, a "dimensional constructed script" which allows the "letter strings" of the directions script to be wrapped up, contorted, forked, and even have letters placed inside of other letters.

List of key Dscript materials

The Dscript introduction PDF
The first Dscript site, Dscript.ca, with manual, video lessons, tools, generator, etc..
The Dscript Facebook Artist Page
The Dscript DeviantArt Page (Lots ofcontent, large files)
Dscript for conlangers and other languages
Dscript alphabet re-indexing guide
Dscript alphabet re-indexing video tutorial