/r/neography
Reddit's home of scripts invented for secret notes, fictional languages, semantic experiments, and more. Post creative uses of existing constructed scripts or showcase your own!
About us
Reddit's home for scripts for secret notes, fictional languages, semantic experiments, and more. Post creative uses of existing constructed scripts or showcase your own!
New to neography?
It's easier than it looks. Here's everything you need to know:
- Why create new writing systems?
- Types of writing systems
- Intro to phonetics and IPA
- How to create a good script
/r/neography rules
1 - Be kind and respectful
- People of all ages, linguistic backgrounds, and experience levels are welcome.
- Help keep this an environment of friendly collaboration, learning, and improvement.
- Be constructive if you have criticism and respectful if you have disagreements.
2 - Submit related content
Encouraged:
- Sample texts and art of constructed scripts
- 'Keys' that explain how your script works
- Calligraphy, typography
- Questions and discussions
3 - Submit appropriate content
Discouraged
- Low-effort posts
- Short samples with no context
- Minor updates and repetitive posts
- Contentious subject matter
Forbidden
- Off-topic content, promotion, or ads
- Hate symbols
- Anything NSFW
Complete appropriate content list.
4 - Submit clear content
You worked hard on your script! So take some time to make sure it's easy for others to understand and appreciate; it'll get more attention if you do. Make sure your content is in a clear layout, legible, in focus, sufficiently contrasted, correctly oriented, cropped, and so on. Tips to ensure image clarity.
5 - Use correct post flair
Use script type flair (grey) for script samples and art.
Use post type flair (yellow) for other posts.
Flair info and guidelines.
6 - Credit non-original content
Non-original content includes scripts you found in movies or games, resources you found online, and your writing in someone else's script. This content is allowed, but you must give credit and state its source in your post title or in a comment. If you searched but still don't know, state that it's not your creation. Taking credit for content you didn't create will result in post removal and possibly a ban.
7 - Post maximum twice per day
Out of respect to other users whose posts would be drowned out, don't post excessively. Focus on quality over quantity. Tip: Submit multiple images as a single post, especially if they're related or similar projects.
Useful resources
/r/neography
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12:33 UTC
Trying out Mpàyla with some mantras
05:53 UTC
How do I create symbols for a syllabary?
I have created a syllabary, but I do not know where to start with making the symbols. I can tell you any information you need to know in the replies. How would I start?
03:52 UTC
What do you think of my script (also any name suggestions)
Also also sorry for the bad handwriting im not fluent in it yet
02:23 UTC
how should i make a writing system for a Nuxalk based language?
im making a language called "Kekní" or "Tsitsikwaqinkaw" thats based on Nuxalk and Okanagan salish, my current writing system kinda sucks since it looks too similar to the latin alphabet and is hard to read for me. im thinking of making a syllabic thing based on hangul but i dont know yet
19:15 UTC
A sample text in Hrvangulica.
I've made a syllable block writing system based on korean hangul for writing Serbo-Croatian. I noticed that the limitations of a syllable in Serbo-croatian fit perfectly in nine symbol blocks, 8 representing phonemes and 1 for pitch accent. So i made a 3×3 grid where you can place "radicals" representing sounds and accents in order to form syllable blocks. I've already made a post in this community (with the key and the process of making it).
17:30 UTC
The Sul'voth Runes - Complete list for the 10th Anniversary
16:08 UTC
how do i make neography?
15:01 UTC
Fast food logos in my script.
IPA:
1 - /sabuweː/
2 - /muli apu/ muli=7
3 - /koka koːla/
09:57 UTC
Just finished the cursive version of the Grivarian script, what do you guys think of it?
01:53 UTC
Just a phrase repeated in some of my fave scripts that I created.
21:43 UTC
Abugida script of the conlang I'm working on
21:42 UTC
Trying to improve my handwriting before I make a key… pt.2
19:14 UTC
Largest alphabet
Whats the largest alphabet you guys have made not like a logography or something but like one symbol one sound cause im trying tomake an extensive alphabets and idk if i got every sound in english
01:56 UTC
Mpayla Script (Made in one day to distract myself)
00:03 UTC
Universal Declaration of Human rights in Denkan script
Zørgi is one of the alphabetical scripts used to write the Denkan language. Denkan is a group of dialects spoken by the descendants of the Sir Empire and Zørgi was adopted during the Zør Dynasty. This fragment is the Kemir dialect, and it is written from left to right and top to bottom.
How did I come up with this alphabet? First I created a logographic system (Kørgi) and then derived an alphabetical one (with a cuneiform style) called Sirgi. Zørgi comes from the latter, but with a more cursive calligraphy. Let me know if you have any questions.
22:19 UTC
alphabet of a writing i made in school (made in krita) the strokes above the green lines are the letters
10:49 UTC
just playin
not mistake those in the first for capitals, they're logographs as in japanese))), second one is for my native language(kazakh) for keeping secrets, i mean it was, now it's just another scribbles for a conlang... boredom
06:19 UTC
Happy lunar new year!!
06:10 UTC