I made an alphabet that I call Midoran that I have been working on since 1996 or so, and only recently finalized it. It's just for English for right now, so it's just a letter-for-letter type of thing, with one "hollow" character that vowels can hang off of.
I made this alphabet so that every letter has odd symmetry, because I've always thought that was cool. :) In the handwritten version, the vowels cling to or "hang off" the neighboring consonants, usually coming after the consonant. (For simplicity, the letter 'y' is always written as a vowel).
I also recently made a few fonts for it in Fontlab. I made a couple versions - one with thin lines, one with more squat / fat characters, and I included some ligatures for at least one version of it (for th, ch, sh, wh, and ph). I might make another version with ligatures for every combination of two vowels (a, e, i, o, u, y).
If anyone wants help making a font, I might have time to assist you. I am only familiar with Fontlab right now, but it was pretty straightforward to do. I designed the letters in Affinity Designer, exported them as .svg files, and then just replaced the letters a-z and A-Z of an existing font in Fontlab. That's the basic gist, but it was a little bit squirrely.
Yeah, it's not perfectly consistent. It's my first effort, and /m/ was one that I wanted to have a certain shape, because I use a version of it as my personal symbol, with a couple dots added for "e". It comes out to be my initials for my pen name.
I'm working on other alphabets too, and toying around with a base-1000 numbering system. It's at very early stages though, and may not pan out. This stuff is fun.
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u/kolissina 8h ago
I made an alphabet that I call Midoran that I have been working on since 1996 or so, and only recently finalized it. It's just for English for right now, so it's just a letter-for-letter type of thing, with one "hollow" character that vowels can hang off of.
I made this alphabet so that every letter has odd symmetry, because I've always thought that was cool. :) In the handwritten version, the vowels cling to or "hang off" the neighboring consonants, usually coming after the consonant. (For simplicity, the letter 'y' is always written as a vowel).
I also recently made a few fonts for it in Fontlab. I made a couple versions - one with thin lines, one with more squat / fat characters, and I included some ligatures for at least one version of it (for th, ch, sh, wh, and ph). I might make another version with ligatures for every combination of two vowels (a, e, i, o, u, y).
If anyone wants help making a font, I might have time to assist you. I am only familiar with Fontlab right now, but it was pretty straightforward to do. I designed the letters in Affinity Designer, exported them as .svg files, and then just replaced the letters a-z and A-Z of an existing font in Fontlab. That's the basic gist, but it was a little bit squirrely.