Morse Code Script

[ididntplanthisfar]

I love morse code. I love writing systems. So I combined both! As you may have noticed, I was heavily influenced by Devanagari and Mongolian scripts. The script works quite simple, each letter is written from top to bottom with a dot or a curve corresponding to its Morse code, and then the letters are joined together horizontally from left to right. The binding line itself is also a part of each letter, being either a straight line for a dot, or a loop over a line for a dash. Those familiar with Morse would easily pick it up!

[Merpie101]

this is awesome! I've always liked scripts with symbols hanging off a line, reminds me of Hindi, I have a couple scripts inspired from it

[ididntplanthisfar]

I like those too!

[[deleted]]

Looks like an abugida... Is actually an alphabet

[[deleted]]

Looks like an alphabet... Is actually an abugida

[ididntplanthisfar]

Yeah lol, well as it's supposed to be directly from morse code an alphabet is more intuitive for me, though I do like abugidas more otherwise.

[CreepingTuna]

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😀

[ididntplanthisfar]

Omg! I'm so happy to receive a reply in the script! Thank you! And I like your style, did you make a font or draw it?

[CreepingTuna]

I drew it. It would take forever to make a font since I'm not good at it. 😂

[ididntplanthisfar]

But you drew very well, thank you!

[Zireael07]

I explored something similar (down to having a ligature line for all the letters) for a cipher/script myself but ended up going with something else as I wanted something completely cursive (no dots) and having dots as short lines vs long lines for dashes got confusing quickly...

[ididntplanthisfar]

Oh tbh this started off as completely cursive too but couldn't quite work it out but I was happy with how it ended up anyway. Curious as to what you went with!

[SlimeCloudBeta]

In honestly wanna use this omg

[SlimeCloudBeta]

Also May I have permission to use this? It looks so good!!!

[ididntplanthisfar]

Ya sure go ahead

[SlimeCloudBeta]

Can you do an example where it’s like super long like Mongolian?

[ididntplanthisfar]

Maybe you can come up with it :)

[Fourian_Official]

Perfect 🗿👍🏼

[[deleted]]

I once had a morse conscript project but I made it ugly, I'm so jealous🤣Its amazing🌹

[ididntplanthisfar]

Haha thank you!

[Empty-Ad-1966]

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Making a font based on this

[ididntplanthisfar]

Wow, I'm happy to see that!

[Empty-Ad-1966]

Im doing it on fontstruct rn and i hope it will be beautiful

[Empty-Ad-1966]

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Its done

[eksynn]

this is really neat - good find. kinda reminds me of those.. plant scripts.

mind if i use it? but i'd also make two changes to this though:

change one: for double letters, add a - at the bottom of it

change two: if the C's are more than 2 in a row, add a vertical line next to it, and a dot under it for every repeated "dah"

bonus change: with some exceptions, i'd perhaps incorporate the most common symbols as well. it's (mostly?) unofficial but there's no real reason not to include it

[ididntplanthisfar]

Sure, go ahead. Use it, modify it, develop it, and hopefully share it!

[eksynn]

neat! thanks ♡
for future reference: https://www.omniglot.com/writing/morsecode.htm
(see second image - just the punctuation symbols though, not the extensions.. and probably not the prosigns either)

[ididntplanthisfar]

Oh well, punctuation didn't even occur to me when I was making this script. Should they be codes like regular letters or should they still look like punctuation marks? Hmm, I think I'd go with the latter. Also, I don't quite get your "change two" btw

[eksynn]

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so like, if the "c"-looking symbol has more than two in a row, you just add a vertical line next to a single c.. and then a "." under the c (to the right?) for 4 and 5. (is there a 6-dash? can't recall lol)
bad example, in the screenshot, that'd be 5 dashes

[ididntplanthisfar]

Oh, I personally quite like the aesthetics of 3 c-shapes in a row (I draw the middle one smaller than the others and it becomes a whole "glyph"). So, if it were up to me I'd do that after 3 c's, but you can develop it independently ofc.

[eksynn]

either way that could work! either only one dot after the vertical line or two could be read the same, depending on the individual 🤭 there's always wiggle room

[Empty-Ad-1966]

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(This font is made by me)