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    ScadrianScripts

    Fonts for the various scripts of Scadrial.
  2. Super cool! I noticed another minor mention in the Mistborn Adventure Game - on pg. 264, in the steel inquisitor artwork that prefaces the chapter "Treatise Metallurgic," there's a line set by itself in the middle of the page that reads: "Though you strike out their eyes, they shall see the hearts of men." (here's the full translation of all the text)
  3. Apologies for the necro - this thread was just so interesting I had to make a font for this script: WarbreakerFont.otf I had a great time working through the IPA categorizations to take my best guess at the missing letters! Here's the theory table I made: What I see is that within each column, there are often two closely related pairs of sounds. G/Q seemed to fit well in the H/K column, since all those sounds are from the back of the throat. Either F or P seemed like it would fit equally well in the B/V/M column - I ended up putting P with O/U since those both involve similar lip shapes. If X exists anywhere, maybe it's in the C column? Z seemed like a great fit in the S/N column, rounded out with J. Single letters for SH, CH, and TH appear in other Cosmere scripts, and none of those letter combinations exist in the available text, so who knows if they exist in this alphabet? If they do, the D/T column is a natural fit for TH (both voiced and unvoiced), while SH and CH could conceivably round out the C/X column. I really have no idea what might fit in the A/Y and O/U/W categories - I'm likely waaay off! But I had fun If you want some more details about the font, I posted some in my gallery here.
  4. Thanks! Fave Cosmere book? Either Elantris or Mistborn: The Final Empire, I think. My favorite character is, without contest, Navani (I'm an engineer lol, we have a lot in common). I'd probably pin my favorite non-cosmere book as Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, though I have been eagerly devouring Terry Pratchett's Discworld books recently. I love sci-fi in general!
  5. Glad to be here with y'all! I've been working on fonts for various cosmere scripts, and I finally finished one - a version of the script embossed on the cover of the leatherbound edition of Warbreaker. Check it out here!
  6. (Edit 4/16/21: spotted and fixed an error; these are the updated files) WarbreakerFont.otf WarbreakerFont.ttf WarbreakerFont_README.txt This image is simply the phrase "Hello, would you like to destroy some evil today?" rendered in the font above. I created this font using FontForge after being inspired by the fabulous discussion in this post, which transliterates the inscription on the cover of the leatherbound edition of Warbreaker. This script is not the Artisan's Script of Hallandren, since it does not use color (see this post from Isaac Stewart). I have simply called it "Nalthis" internally. If you compare this image to the leatherbound cover, you will notice a discrepancy in the word "destroy" - it appears to be spelled "deiroy" on the book, but I have spelled it normally here. See the transliteration post linked above for more details. All letters besides F, G, J, P, Q, X, and Z appear on the cover or on internal art. These missing letters were assigned by me based on trends in the IPA designations of similar glyphs and are in no way canon. I posted an image of a table showing the IPA designation of each letter in this thread. Additional unused glyphs created following the existing patterns are assigned to Unicode values: "Aacute" U+00C1 - same base stroke as A, Y "aacute" U+00E1 - same base stroke as A, Y "Eth" U+00D0 - same base stroke as D, T "eth" U+00F0 - same base stroke as D, T "Uacute" U+00DA - same base stroke as U, O "Esh" U+0283 - same base stroke as C "Tesh" U+02A7 - same base stroke as C The unused glyphs are also assigned based on IPA trends, but no automatic substitutions have been included in the font. It is possible that "th" is substituted by the "eth" character, "sh" by the "esh" character, and "ch" by the "tesh" character, but these letter combinations do not appear in the text samples mentioned above. To use this font, install your preference of the OpenType (.otf) or TrueType (.ttf) font file. If using MS Word, once you create a new document, type some text, and set the font to "Nalthis," you must also highlight the text, expand Word's "Font" section at the top (or press Ctrl+D), and navigate to the "Advanced" tab. Here you must select the checkbox "Kerning for fonts" under the "Character Spacing" section, and under the "OpenType Features" section select "all" from the drop-down menu labeled "Ligatures." Blame Microsoft for the convoluted method of enabling these features; I have heard that other programs do a better job. If you use a different text editor, search for information on "enabling advanced typography features" or "enabling ligatures and kerning" for your program of preference. My experience is limited to Windows & Microsoft; sorry I can't be of more help If you're familiar with FontForge and want to mess around with this font, here's the SFD file: WarbreakerFont.sfd
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