New Lulani script

[Ryan of Tinellb]

My original script for High Lulani was semi-featural. All the nasals had a small straight line somewhere in them, all the alveolar sounds had a wedge shape, all the back vowels had a horizontal line...

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I've now decided to assign that script to the daughter language Demotic Lulani, leaving space for the previously uncreated featural script the former would have been based on.

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This is the same paragraph in both scripts. To directly compare the individual characters, you can check out this table (full featural on the left, semi-featural on the right):

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I'm likely to keep adjusting these subtly to make them look better, but they're at least usable now.

[Moose-tache]

I love it. Featural conscripts tend to be very rigid and logical, so I really like the idea of it "eroding" into a semi-featural script over time. I think the different stroke widths are slightly distracting in your sample, but otherwise this is a 10/10 for idea and execution.

[WeepingElf]

Excellent! I have always liked featural scripts where the letters don't look all the same, which is not so easy to achieve (I hope to have succeeded in that with the Old Albic alphabet).

[Vardelm]

I dig it. Various features give me impressions of a wide variety of scripts, but nothing seems directly comparable, so this seems very much it's own thing. Kudos.

[Ryan of Tinellb]

Thanks to you all for your kind words.

... I think the different stroke widths are slightly distracting in your sample...

Oh, definitely. I wish I had some font designers from my conworld so I didn't have to do it .

[malloc]

Cool. I have always liked featural scripts and this one looks pretty good. It would look really cool carved into stone or perhaps adapted to cuneiform.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

That is pretty cool. Nothing else to really offer.

[masako]

That is pretty cool. Nothing else to really offer.

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[Nachtswalbe]

Is the erosion into a semifeatural script like how Ge’ez vowels were originally written alongside their consonants but merged together, distorting the consonants in the process?