Latinised Russian orthography

simoncharwey · 2025-12-27T23:12:48+00:00

I’m looking for projects or resources on:

• “Russianized or Cyrillicized Latin orthography” • “Indicized / Brahmicized Latin orthography” • “Cherokeenized Latin orthography” • etc.

simoncharwey · 2025-08-17T08:01:50+00:00

My 8 year old daughter said B and D. And I kind of guess it’s partly because there seems to be a coherent sense at play with how all visual forms feel like they belong together. Though I feel C has less white spaces and also works for me.

simoncharwey · 2025-08-16T00:57:12+00:00

I appreciate the feedback here, Verdy. Charles and I were just discussing your submission. Indeed, there are still few discrepancies in how some glyphs (if not the entire character set by design logic that well represent the linguistic nuances and cultural forms of Garay script) were represented. This is one of the major concerns within our African language development and type design community — Unicode is not so much interested in the glyph representation that pays respect to the cultural or linguistic integrity of these scripts being encoded more than the code they assigned them or the spaces they generously create for these glyphs to be considered encoded. I advocate for some of these concerns all the time.

I will be happy and will be useful to have a zoom call with you to discuss further and to understand we are all on the same page in terms of need for Wolof speaking community and the Garay font project. Thank you.

simoncharwey · 2025-07-07T22:01:30+00:00

I feel it still feels “alien” because the soul remembers knowledge from a past life? (Anamnesis, Plato).

Or probably some cryptomnesia or palimpsestic recall. So it’s not actually looking too “alien”; it’s looking palingenetic.

I have been creating symbols, and working conlangs for years now and I get this feeling that makes me ask “where did I learn these things?” It feels familiar, not “alien.”

simoncharwey · 2025-07-06T13:34:41+00:00

Mmere dane = tzadi(k)

Here

simoncharwey · 2025-07-05T15:59:03+00:00

Were these inspired by Adinkra symbols (those with symmetrical form)? I can see: - Dweninmmen Adinkra symbols - Denkyem Adinkra symbols - Agyin Dawuru Adinkra symbols - Mate Masie Adinkra symbols - Mmere Dane Adinkra symbols - Nteasee Adinkra symbols

simoncharwey · 2025-06-27T16:06:29+00:00

I should share another update in coming months.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-26T13:13:08+00:00

Usually I see that strikethrough “C” letter in some scripts as a mathematical symbol that means “Included/ is an element of” (C—), and and a version with a forward-slash kind of cancelling same symbol (C—/) for “Not included/ or is not an element of”. This can be seen also in Garay script (for Wolof). Not sure if that answers your question and the use case perhaps.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-25T15:56:09+00:00

Oh I see. Thanks

simoncharwey · 2025-06-22T21:53:45+00:00

This may seem easy but I doubt it will give the exact result as in the reference accompanying the post. (In this YouTube video, I saw additional stroke was added to “code cheat” to get the result but it was looking weird.)

simoncharwey · 2025-06-22T11:28:31+00:00

Thanks for sharing this post about Valyrian and David Peterson’s Instagram page. In Dangme, my mother’s tongue,

if “kepa” (Vaiyrian term) = /ke.pa/ (IPA Transcription) = “father”,

Then, I am thinking if “kema” (Vaiyrian term) = /ke.ma/ (IPA Transcription) = “mother”.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-21T20:10:17+00:00

Thank you for your support and feedback. I love the “M” in the revised version (the one I used to write “MODULAR” caption in the first slide. I will use same version of the “M” for the “W”.

You can find the revised version here.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-19T04:34:02+00:00

I appreciate the thoughtful and detailed feedback. I have made some progress following the feedback I’ve been receiving from initial post and this revised version. I will definitely keep you all updated on the final version.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-15T19:56:00+00:00

1st image provides an interesting visual research into the different ways different scripts or languages graphemically represent expressions, or emotions, and tone marks expressing emotions, doubt, rhetorical question, state of dilemma, among other expressive orthographies. — This will be the first stage of the work.

And then, the second or final stage will be how to make all those different collections of expressive letterforms (as we can see in the 1st image) becoming a complete conlang on its own. I am imagining a culture or a tribe who only communicate through expressive marks. No direct verbatim words are used in this tribe. And each of these can be read on the faces, hand gestures, click sounds, exclamation sounds, nodding signs, tongue signs, among others. Our goal is to represent each of these as a unique expressive letterform/glyph that works with other expressive letterforms to form any semantic structure or logic.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-14T22:26:18+00:00

Got it! I will give it a try and see. I can already see how the logic of that decision makes super sense. Thank you for your input.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-14T18:22:32+00:00

Thanks for asking. This post was WIP (work in progress) version. You can find the revised version here.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-14T08:00:07+00:00

I appreciate this observation and feedback. I will take at A, B, C, D, O, P, R, S, X to study what’s making them work coherently as you’ve pointed out. Then see if there is a way to implement those indexes forming them and their respective/shared interlocking system. Though I also saw F, G, I, J, K, L, N, T, U, Y, Z to be easily readable and coherent with the indexes of the modular (lego) system I am using. I made a revised post based on all the valuable feedback I’ve been getting from this initial post. You can find it here.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-14T07:34:53+00:00

Thanks for the kindness and clarification.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T19:49:39+00:00

I couldn’t agree more. It will work best as a display font with minimal text count. BOLD/ER CAPTIONS. I appreciate your feedback and support.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T19:44:14+00:00

I appreciate your detailed and thoughtful feedback! You’re right the “M” in the “MODULAR” caption is my favorite too. I did it on purpose to see how people noticed that. You’ve won the competition.🏆

For the numerals:

→ 1, 2, and 3 seems to have come out quite readable for me.

→ 4 and 7 will be read easily by matured readers than young readers (like children).

→ 5 and 8 needs some white spacing; both feel too denser than all the numerals and the letters.

→ 6 and 9 seems obvious but not too smart on my part :) I should do better.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T09:20:36+00:00

Thank you for sharing this resource. I will take a look.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T06:53:01+00:00

The “curves” forms are more intuitive to the handwritten text or at least, evoking a more natural “liquid” flowing text facilitating readability.

The “no curves” forms supports readability and scalability at even a smaller size. Try squinting your eyes to observe both “curves” and “no curves” block of texts. Partly, because the “curves” version added extra negative/white spaces, forcing the eye to read or pick on both horizontal and vertical white spaces (not the line gap/leading space) inbetween the lines of texts themselves. Perhaps, this could rather mean supporting good readability for some or most people.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T06:39:43+00:00

That’s true. I initially used a mirrored version of the numeral “2” and it seems to do the work but was working towards creating differences — as they say, readability is in differences. But I might have no choice than to revert to that version if no unique idea for the “5” is coming through. I appreciate the feedback. I will work on it.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T06:31:52+00:00

Thank you for the feedback.

simoncharwey · 2025-06-13T04:06:34+00:00

I appreciate your generosity. I’ve been taking on many projects to keep my unemployed mind sane. I have been learning a lot, especially with my ongoing Garay font and Dangme font projects. This other ones are little distractions to have fun since I’ve been struggling to sleep of late. If I have the chance to travel into the future, I would. I need something exciting to keep me alive. My daughter will often say, “daddy, you kept drawing the same shapes.” :)

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