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The Pretty Featural Alphabet

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 I think you will enjoy this puppy! I follow the common theme I have in my scripts of having some indication above if the letter is unvoiced, and some indication below if the letter is voiced.       Here is the pronunciation chart . And here is the book of Genesis to practice .

The Shavian Inspiration Alphabet

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 I decided to create an alphabet that is inspired by Shavian, Deseret, and also Tengwar. This came to me March 26th, and I thought I would now make it public. This writing system has some characters from Deseret, some that resemble Shavian characters, and some that are inspired by Tengwar. The basic idea was to change one thing that has bothered me about Shavian, which is that sometime the curved part of the letter points away from the voice box when the sound is unvoiced, and towards it when voiced, as in the 𐑐 𐑚 pair, and sometimes the opposite, as in the 𐑔 𐑞 pair. I have changed this to make the memory load easier. Obviously when James Kingsley Read created the system, he was thinking about the letters sticking above the mid line being unvoiced, and the letters sticking below the mid line as being voiced. I can see his logic, but why not do both? In the pdf copy of this text linked below, I will demonstrate this. The pdf format allows you to easily display custom fonts wheth...