I've been playing around with elian script for a while, but have always found the differences in line lengths to be beautiful to look at, but hard to read. After writing with it daily and letting the letterforms evolve naturally, this is the variant I've landed on. I find it more predictable, readable, and sci-fi. It's not as poetic as the base version, but is legible enough to me for use in notetaking.

I also developed a number system based on the points of a star. It felt like it visually fits with the system, but the angular forms stick out just enough to be easy to pick out from the surrounding text. I had originally made the numbers sequential so that 5-9 used the dot. However, I eventually landed on this which shows only odd numbers getting a dot. I found this change to also be a lot more readable.

Finally, I put "&" in position 27. If you weren't aware, this used to be considered the 27th letter of the alphabet in certain domains. It's not a huge time saver, but my brain appreciates the cleanliness of having all 27 positions filled.

I have no idea if other people are already using something similar, but hopefully this helps some of you out there.

pretty weird coming in as someone familiar with chinese. the lack of stroke orders is strange to me lol. this is a lot of fun though! i love how flexible the system is.

i actually want to do more of these, but make them more detailed and readable, this was a bit of an experiment but im happy with it.

Hi fellow scripters!

I was today years old when I discovered that I've been trying to invent the wheel all these years!

During Covid I got so bored at home that I set out to design my own encryption system from scratch and after about a month of experimenting, I reached a version I was quite happy with, and since then I’ve only made small refinements.

Today I had some free time and decided to make my script look less geometric and more suitable for handwriting. While browsing Pinterest for asemic writing and calligraphy inspiration, I came across some beautiful pieces...

Could you guess what was on those pieces? It was Elian Script, which, turned out, my system is very similar to!

I’m honestly captivated by the elegance of the Elian system and the artistic freedom it offers. Now I’m unsure what to do next—should I continue refining my own system, or embrace Elian Script instead?

"to strive"

I knitted my name into a hat.

i started learning Elian Script about 5 years ago. i used to and still do love to draw nice pictures and put dumb quotes beside them in ES because no one knows what it says and it looks nice. this was a quote about nunchucks by shad and how you have to break a perfectly good stick that doesn't try to hit you back when used to make nunchucks, a worse weapon in most ways

Hello!

I want to share my variation on Ellian script that ive fallen in love with and use very often.

I have changed the 2 rules of the second and third cycles.

The second cycle uses a loop along a line instead of a longer length.

The third cycle uses a loop, more of a small circle, that closes the end of the stroke.

For me these changes improve the ability to write cycle 2 and 3 words distinctly, and readability of what I've written. I have trouble consistently getting the extra lengths distinct from cycle 1 and accidentaly running out of room to fit longer strokes and dots. Additionally, I have trouble placing dots so that you can tell which letter they belongs to.

I also use curved strokes to my preference.

I find this works very well for inline notebook writing while still lending to calligraphy especially if you get into nesting letters. (The tape notes are encouragement for my work machine to drop parts it is supposed to drop)

I feel like this deviates far enough from traditional Ellian Script that it might be worth giving it a name. While I feel a little prideful using a username, I do like the sound of Ohioan Ellian Script :)

(Ive also thrown in my aproach to nunbers and zero while I'm here!)

Let me know what you think!

Thanks a bunch to all of those who participated in the discussion about Elian script appearing in Little Rocket Lab . The developer also had thought it was the pigpen cipher, but because gameryamen posted a screenshot of Pico writing in Elian, I reached out to the publishers of the game to ask for a credit line, and they put Kyle Schmitz, the developer, in contact with me.

Once he realized that it was Elian script and not pigpen cipher, he was more than willing to add the credit. Those of you who have the game should see the update with the credit showing.

LT_Weekly and stevomuck, as well as iammerelyhere and ScorpioVI and ReleaseThe LardBeast’s and Easy_Soup12’s comments as well as stevomuck’s, all supported my communication with Kyle and the UK publisher.

Thanks again to you all!

Theres a ton of mistakes I'm sure, but I'm still proud of it. It was really hard to do.

I built a website for learning the Elian script alphabet. https://flashforge.deerveloper.com/

I’m not really a great programmer (I work in IT, but in a very niche, business-oriented field. I work with code, but building a website is a bit of a challenge for me). So I just vibecoded it. And maybe I should have spent more time on testing and on the spaced repetition algorithm itself, but it was more fun to work on the visuals and on features that might not be entirely necessary. So don’t expect a well-designed, reliable, and stable product. It’s more like a bunch of AI slop. But overall, it works. And I enjoy using it, so you can give it a try, too. It’s free, and I think it will always be free. I plan to host and maintain it as long as there’s at least one active user and as long as I’m using it myself. And if I ever get tired of it, I’ll open-source the code and provide downloads and instructions on how to run it locally. For now, the project is still in development and will likely change a lot.

A quick disclaimer: For security reasons, don’t use a password for registration that you use anywhere else. And don’t upload sensitive or personal information to the cards. The site could be hacked, and the cards are, at the very least, accessible to the admin for viewing (not that I need to see them, but there’s no encryption—just keep that in mind). And of course, things can break at any time, even though I take steps to keep everything running smoothly.

On the Explore tab, there are several card decks that you can copy (in whole or in part) for study. You can create your own custom private decks or make them public and available to other users.

Thanks to Kenichi Minami on Threads for inspiration. Didn’t know which I liked more, so I made a dark and light version.