"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
i definitely wasn't intending to spend as much time on this as I have today. I was going really slow initially.
Unfortunately, i can't write anything more than a two word sentence with it yet because i don't have enough consonants .
Finally got all the native letters set up.
Decided I need to design some characters to represent sounds from foreign words that aren't natively in the language (ch sh dj and a few others), but that can wait.
Now that I've got all the native letters I can actually write in it on the computer
Here's an example sentence. it's a stupid sentence so I'm not going to translate it. 😝
I wrote it years ago and I dunno what I was thinking.
@thetacola I found this intro vid pretty helpful for getting started quickly.
This one had some good tips re the gotchas in creating ligatures
@dobody re glyph points. if you're referring to the actual points on the bezier curves, some of the more complex shapes I just drew in Affinity Designer and exported as SVG then Imported that to BF. Worked great.
Re wrapping head around it: I found these videos helpful
official overview https://youtu.be/Z7qE5Y-tQyY
use in conlangs: https://youtu.be/KCmegUku-pE
REALLY useful tips if you need to do ligatures: https://youtu.be/H9mhS2Jbadg
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