Turning English Word into Symbols and Glyphs Options

[vasten]

Hi Everyone.

I posted about a year back about Dscript, but have added quite few updates and additions.

Dscript can be thought of as a "form of English cursive writing". It merges Chinese pen strokes and character design principles wit the roman alphabet, allowing English word to come as close as possible to a logographic representation without loosing the actual letters and words(like Chinese characters).

I have put it all online, and reserve no license, royalty, fee rights. Do as you please, just dont claim you invented Dscript itself.

I recently started adding some "Dscript lessons", these are bassicly little sketches where I outline the actual process of the letter combination like in the image below.
www.dscript.ca/lesson






There is also the full manual (available in online version and pdf download)
www.dscript.ca
This teaches all the basic skills and the letter combinations. It is a guide and index for using Dscript to make symbols and glyphs out of English words.
Learning to write Dscript can produce tons of different styles and looks. Below is a simple example with a basic pen.



Finally there is also a generator, it generates Dscipt text from your input text. There are sooo many possible combinations that I could only put the most common in the generator. It is far from perfect, and much less attractive than human hand written, but it can be fun and shows off the basics of Dscript.
Dscript Generator
www.dscript.ca/genpage.php


I would love any comments suggestions. I am thinking game designers and game artists may find it fun.

Anyways, hope you find it fun and useful,

Kindest regards,
Vatsen

[madradubhcroga]

Nicely done, Cat!

[akura]

Thats gorgious =) thank u for the share =), Mind if I use the language for my upcoming game.

This post has been edited by akura: Oct 31 2011, 07:24 AM

[vasten]

Glad you guys like it

of course, use it however you want.

No fees ,licence, royalty etc..

I would love to see how you use

Many people have complained about the materials being too complicated and poorly layed out. I agree, i did poorly on the presentation.

I have done up a 30 second "elevator pitch" to help explain dscript.

http://dscript.blogdive.com

I took a while to find a good way to host it that works both in China and the west. And Dscript.ca is blocked in China now.

What do you think? can this be easily understand by someone skimming it?

P.S. I'm in China, no facebook, twitter, youtube, wordpress.com, blogspot, etc.. If you like it I would really appreciate if you tell a friend (or tweet or shout or whatever you guys are up to over there nowadays.. been here 7 years, a little out of the loop hehe).

This post has been edited by vasten: Oct 31 2011, 11:45 PM