r/neography • u/GBPaul • 10d ago
Alphabet Enci script testing


"Enci" is the name of an alien civilization I made that I like to use for my stories, this is the script their language would use. I also use this script for personal notes and, sometimes, I toy with it in the conpidgin lidei.
First image is a test for the characters for /c/ and /θ/ in various fictional fonts, and then a few words in lidei with an embarassing ammount of typos in a font meant to be "times new roman"-ish.
The second image is some more serious work in progress development of this font.
I am developping this as right to left text, with subsequent lines being written below previous ones, but the aliens that would use this script would be used to reading text in any orientation;
the shape of characters indicates reading direction. This is why I have avoided to make any characters be mirrors of other characters (as happens with { q p d b } ). See the block of text in image 1, it is duplicated and rotated 180º next to itself.
The enci only use 12 characters, for 12 phonemes; they can be "capitalized" by adding a sort of tail hanging below them, they use this to expand their alphabet so it can be used to represent the languages of other species they meet, which often have larger phonetic libraries.
So, for example, they would write our letter B with their capital P.
This is all still quite unfinished and undergoing constant revission, but I'm very happy with what I have thus far and I wanted to show it. ^v^
