OpenGeofiction
Creating Alphabets
Posted by BMSOUZA on 17 August 2015 in Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil).Hey, friends! I found a good tool to create fictional alphabets in http://fontstruct.com/
Today, as a test, I created a simplified Goytakano alphabet. Anyone can download and use it, hehehe
http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1175068
It was “easy” to design. If anyone wants testing too…
Discussion
Comment from Luciano on 17 August 2015 at 23:47
That’s cool. I wonder if it would be possible to include fictional language fonts in the rendering library so that they actually could appear in maps - this is a question for Thilo or joschi81 I guess… I have been thinking about developing a custom writing system for Mahhalian. Meanwhile for my Bofobundan language I just borrowed the Farsi script.
Comment from Leowezy on 18 August 2015 at 19:27
Wow, that looks great! I will dive into it later on, but I have actually been looking for something like this for ages :) Thanks a lot!
Comment from isleño on 18 August 2015 at 20:02
This is awesome! I agree with Luciano that it would be really great to see these languages rendered on the map.
I’ve looked into the options for creating a Khaiwoonese font but it doesn’t look easy, due to the script being so much more complex. :-(
Anyway, great work!
Comment from BMSOUZA on 18 August 2015 at 21:55
Yes, it looks complex… In fact, my Goytakano font is so “bold” too. But I will continue testing the site. If I got better results, I can write a tutorial, hehehe.
I took a look in fonts created by other users, and the got so detailed things… I will learn and try more…
Bruno Moreira
Comment from thilo on 19 August 2015 at 19:01
I can’t really answer the question if it’s possible to render fictional language fonts. You’d probably have to google for an answer, or ask the OSM community. However, my guess is that the answer is “no” for anything that isn’t covered by the Unicode standard. The OSM tools are being developed for real world data, after all.
Comment from wangi on 20 August 2015 at 13:40
What you’d need to do is create a custom font with the various fictional alphabets at different Unicode ranges within in… And then setup the osm software to use that (which is possible). It’s then a lot of faff to use the characters, because they’re not at the normal a-z positions.
Comment from clik on 20 August 2015 at 20:34
Thank you so much for the link ! I was looking for this kind of tool for so long… I created the 2 eganian alphabets 2 years ago and I was looking for a way to put them on computer.