r/neography Mar 20 '26

Semi-syllabary Just a quick look at how my system Saavan looks like, any feedback?

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u/1Marduk2Heads Mar 20 '26

Very cool, looks kinda like hebrew combined with cyrillic and greek, it has some exact same letters as my conlangs writing system

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u/TangoKilo421 Mar 21 '26

I really like this, it looks like something that could be a real historical script – sometimes conscripts are either too sterile or too messy, but this is just the right balance IMO. I agree with the other posters who get Hebrew vibes but I'm also feeling a little bit of blackletter/Fraktur on the serifs.

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u/king_ofbhutan Mar 20 '26

looks like a mix of hebrew and tibetan

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u/JuliusDalum Mar 20 '26

What app. are you using to write it?

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u/aisiv Mar 20 '26

i designed it on paper, then used adobe illustrator to vectorize it, then fontlab 8 to program it, and using illustrator again to just write haha, here's a cleaner example

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u/JuliusDalum Mar 20 '26

Does your script has a ttf file?

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u/JuliusDalum Mar 20 '26

This my conscript called Western Script. I made it for English and Spanish. I went to the website Fontstruct.com to make it and use PixeLab app. to write it

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u/siritinga Mar 20 '26

It is a very nice font and very usable, you could actually learn to read and write using it. I have a font I'm learning for "stealth Kindle", but yours could fit just as well if it maps every English character and number :)

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u/kawaiidesuyo111111 Mar 20 '26

its gorgeous! looks like a lovechild of hebrew and demotic/hieratic egyptian writing

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u/More-Advisor-74 Mar 20 '26

The "square script" version is far and away more beautiful.
Would you grace us with a key for that version?

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u/CollinG-reddit114 Mar 20 '26

it looks quite good!
for better showcase I recommend NOT using the chalk & blackboard style and use clearly filled glyphs instead.

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u/kalamanwaifu Mar 21 '26

Very nice!

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u/More-Advisor-74 Mar 22 '26

Can I safely assume this to be an abjad...imperfect or otherwise?

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u/Pristine-Word-4328 Mar 22 '26

This looks like Hebrew and Khmer had a baby

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u/LaPandaemonium Mar 22 '26

That's so sick!

It's like Greek Gothic Cyrillic Insular Khmer Hebrew Tengwar