A new conlang I've created based on LokiT's unlu and Evikræl and a few others I've found on the web. Although the time I spent fonstructing this one was minimal, I did put a lot of effort into designing it's style and method. You'll find a similar one to this on omniglot; trust me, I designed this without knowledge of the other one.

Hope you enjoy it; not much to explain about its usage, really, other than the advanced glyphs æ and á on a latin keyboard or a regular "special symbols" page on a mac make an Ai or Ay sound, like eye, or cry, or a japanes maegeri, and that á makes a kind of æ and eh hybrid sound not in our language, symilar to a heavily accented e in spanish.

Sooo, yeah.

BYEEEEE!

What began nearly 8 years ago as an experiment in multi-stage, multi-resolution pixel serif type drafting (starting smallish then manually upscaling x4), took on the robust character you see here after countless edits and some tricky lessons learned along the way.

The initial weight was on the light side (cloned privately for posterity), so I took a leap into this bookish weight by fattening each glyph copy-pasted 1 pixel shifted both up and to the right. A rudimentary technique, by no means novel, yet almost wholly effective. I saw fit from here to only make a handful of corrections, keeping the slightly rounded and slanted serif shape that resulted as well as the subtle reenforcing of a pen-nib construction. 

More intriguing is the 1-bit “anti-aliasing” scheme I found myself  progressively guided toward while finding the lines of these curves developing the initial light weight. Implied diagonals and said curves – as well as refinement of contrast – are substantially more granular and specific than had I taken a black-and-white posterized, or stairstepped approach.

At half-resolution, the resulting smoothness is acceptible. This type of hinting will be useful in developing a substitution rule set consisting of subpixel slanted or curved bricks to produce a “vectorized” version.

Indeed, such a process could be purely automated by a proficient developer or properly trained neural network (this would be a really interesting future feature for fontstruct pro – rather than hinting a font after painstaking vector construction, why not reverse the process by way of en vogue ai-assisted upscaling?).

Basic accented charaters and numerals are being added as I churn through the extended character set...