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OrigamiPhoenix — Manthyoma Script Font
Published: 2014-03-12 02:20:06 +0000 UTC; Views: 704; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 16
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An explanation of the writing system:fav.me/d756c58
This maps each glyph by shape on the keyboard. Vowel makers than are not solo have to be added manually.
If you have tried using this font, I'd love to hear back from you.
Released under the SIL Open Font License.
scripts.sil.org/OFL_web
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Hi, I showed this font to my friends and Linguistics teacher and everyone I have showed this to thinks this is a really interesting font to use and I love the amount of work you put into creating this. My only problem is that the sounds don't match the Qwerty keyboard; it makes it difficult to type without looking at the keyboard document constantly. The only things I would change would be to match the symbol to the letter on the key. And if it were possible some kind of typing system that would allow the proper combination of vowels and consonants; ex: typing using a Japanese keyboard that changes the individual characters into kanji. I hope this font can be used more widely; it's a very elegant font.
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Yeah, I know the layout is a bit weird; I chose to do that because the values for the sounds are arbitrary and basing it off the English model just seemed too constraining. I guess the way how to do that would to do two versions with different letter assignments, one that's more phonetic and one that's based on shape. The reason why I didn't think about this more before now is that it's something I used myself so I chose the most technical but theoretically accurate mapping.
The diacritics don't combine because I have very little knowledge on how to engineer and program fonts. The variable vowel positioning system just seems a little complex, especially since in the original form as seen here you can put vowels at both the beginning and end of a letter. Mapping it to kanji/hanzi doesn't make too much sense as it's more like any of the Brahmic-derived writing systems like Devanagari with special non-vowel carrying forms of the letters, but it's like Arabic scripts in the fact that vowels are added in simple forms to the consonants.
So the reason why it's like this is because it was meant mostly for my own use and I don't know much about making fonts.
If you have any advice on how to do this, I am open to it.
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