February 03rd, 2013

2/3/2013

I've downloaded about 25 Shavian fonts from all over the web. That means there are (or have been) a fair number of Shavian enthusiasts who know how to make a font. Well, I would love to make one of my own. Before I could do that I decided to take some of the old fonts where the shavian glyphs were mapped to the Latin areas and move things around to make them unicode compliant. I then took other fonts on my system and used the latin characters to make a complete true type font. I've messed up some of the font resulting in weird kerning and other issues but they are mostly still usable. My goal is to have my own completed by the end of the year. :-) Yay goals!! Here is a quick photo of the 'fixed' fonts I have on my computer. I'd love to be able to add the names of the orignal creators and will be working on tracking them down on an internet archive site.

In the mean time... enjoy! :-D

3 Comments

Martyn

4/9/2016 09:57:35 pm

I recently started creating my own phonetic script based on Shavian, but have no clue how to make fonts. I enjoy Shavian but it can be a headache to read do to it's similar characters, also not a fan of having tall and deep letters. I prefer letters that sit within the baseline, like the letter a for example. Which is what I'm aiming for with my script. I'm also working on a way to identify homophones, which I don't see with Shavian. Still have a long way to go.

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8/20/2016 09:59:02 pm

𐑣𐑨𐑝 𐑿 𐑐𐑴𐑕𐑑𐑧𐑛 𐑞𐑰𐑟 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕 𐑧𐑯𐑰𐑢𐑧𐑮? 𐑲'𐑯 𐑐𐑤𐑨𐑯𐑦𐑙 𐑪𐑯 𐑜𐑧𐑑𐑦𐑙 𐑩 𐑑𐑨𐑑𐑵 𐑨𐑑 𐑕𐑳𐑥 𐑐𐑶𐑯𐑑 𐑯 𐑢𐑫𐑛 𐑤𐑳𐑝 𐑩 𐑯𐑲𐑕 𐑕𐑧𐑤𐑧𐑒𐑖𐑫𐑯 𐑝 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕 𐑑 𐑿𐑟. 𐑲 𐑑𐑮𐑲𐑛 ·𐑜𐑵𐑜𐑤𐑦𐑙 𐑞 𐑯𐑱𐑥𐑟 𐑝 𐑞 𐑓𐑪𐑯𐑑𐑕 𐑦𐑯 𐑞 𐑐𐑦𐑒𐑗𐑻𐑟, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑢𐑳𐑟𐑯'𐑑 𐑣𐑨𐑝𐑦𐑙 𐑧𐑯𐑦 𐑤𐑳𐑒.

Kayla W link

6/12/2022 02:51:47 am

Thank you for beeing you

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This website is my online record and resource for learning how to read, write and type using the Shavian Alphabet. I will use the blog to post my progress and the website for linking to and storing resources, files and texts in the Shavian Script.