r/neography • u/AuricArchivist • 1d ago

Alphabet Conlang font prototype test

So I made a prototype font for my conlang! Since it's just a prototype, the runes are hand drawn for now, but I plan to eventually make proper vectors with Adobe Illustrator or maybe Inkscape.

If it wasn't obvious, major inspiration from Elder Futhark runes, and the conlang itself draws major inspiration from Germanic languages.

The first test recording with short introductory sentences.

"Hail, I am Aurelius.

This is the language of the Ansis.

I am here."

https://reddit.com/link/1w3ar1v/video/bdvxl3fc1pmh1/player

The Sator Square Latin palindrome

https://reddit.com/link/1w3ar1v/video/iwtc8znm1pmh1/player

I currently don't have enough grammar and vocabulary developed in my conlang to write something substantial. So I like to write Old Norse poems in my conlang's script and pretend I have a fully fledged and fleshed out conlang.

Here's Grógaldr ("Groa's Spell") stanzas 6~14 with my conlang font.

https://reddit.com/link/1w3ar1v/video/8z075nx22pmh1/player

EDIT: I've now made a proper prototyped font with Adobe Illustrator. The ligatures don't look like anything I want, but this'll do for now. Here's a Gothic translation of The Lord's Prayer, which I'm transcribing in my conlang font based on a Latin transliteration of said Gothic translation.

https://reddit.com/link/1w3ar1v/video/fz0h54wj2qmh1/player

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u/shinjukai 1d ago

reminds me of the "warrior script" from chants of sennar.

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u/AuricArchivist 1d ago

I thought my script looked too obviously "Norse", so that's an interesting opinion

I have Chants of Sennar on my Steam wishlist but I don't have the money to get it atm ;-(

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u/shinjukai 1d ago

Try demo?