I've been wanting to put together a cursive form of the writing for my conlang (olo) for a while now. Something that could be written quickly and easily for journaling purposes, that was also easy to read.

This is the end result, after creating a font out of it with #BirdFont. I'm pretty happy with it, and have been finding it relatively easy to read due to its modular construction and extremely limited set of component parts.

#conlang #neography

"Hey," I thought, "It'd be cool if I used diacritics to indicate vowel sounds!"

So many 🤬 ligatures.

By having trailing space _also_ look different it takes 12 characters to add a new consonant.

This is just for 5 vowels & 6 consonants plus space & period.

On the upside, I've figured out the tricks to become faster at making the variants now.

Doing this with #BirdFont which is SO much better than #FontForge

#conlang #neography

WU3 Segments, my font based on the displays on subway line U3 in Vienna is now (mostly) complete!

It is free, open source, have fun with it!

Download it here: https://github.com/gheja/wu3-segments/releases/

Source code: https://github.com/gheja/wu3-segments/

#font #vienna #subway #metro #wien #ubahn #lcd #display #electronics #electronic #typography #birdfont #ttf #design #opensource #free #wu3segments

I was half-joking when I said I'll make a custom font out of the font used on the U3 subway displays. But I have a preview TTF now available here: https://github.com/gheja/wu3-segments/

It's free, open source, but still missing characters.

If you could send me (your own) photos of texts containing missing characters, I'd list you as a contributor in return :)

#font #ttf #vienna #wien #metro #ubahn #lcd #display #electronics #electronic #typography #birdfont #ScreenshotSaturday