ox| alphabet
A downloadable project
Shouting into the void a little bit.
Shavian inspired script using only the absolute simplest and most distinct symbols I could think of. I have pretty bad handwriting. Almost every letter can end up looking like any other.
It gets a little muddled here because I had multiple goals, but one issue I have with Shavian is that the letters can have very subtle differences that can be difficult to emphasize when writing quickly. The other issue I have is that there don't need to be that many letters. I probably overdid it when simplifying. I have minimal experience with animation and mouth shapes. The list of official mouth shapes does not line up perfectly with the list of official sounds. Along with the things most people start with (ch should have its own letter, as well as sh, ng, etc), I decided oo is the same sound as w, and ee is the same sound as y, and many vowel sounds actually have more than one sound in them. If you aren't following, maybe ee-oo lah-eek ee-el-uh-oo oo-affles.
No two letters are the same symbols in just different positions, so really the symbols can be put together in any way you're comfortable with. The symbols also only stack up and down so that you don't get confused with them running into each other side by side.
This script does NOT work well with standard punctuation. What I might do is use a huge slash instead of a comma and start a new line rather than use a period. Something like that.
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