Multimedia script
hi, i dont know if there is something like this but i wanted to work on this idea. beginning with something like braille to have a script that could be used in normal handwriting, on computer screens and prints and in a way that if you know one of the forms you could easily adapt to any of the others without having to actually learn new shapes, just different ways to use the same configuration that could be easily learned with 2 or 3 rules. i adapted the letters kind of as in Japanese in a way that the similar sounds would be grouped and differentiated with the under dots, so it could be adapted to more languages just adding those dots where they thought would better fit the sound. here is the chart with the different modes, they could be mixed and should be still understood, so there isnt a fixed rule for the each of them: not present here but it is adapted to hand signs too and to a kind of morse code, just number the dots from 1 to 6 from right to left and dot dash them in order, if you want i could post an example. sample (All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.) sorry for my terrible English... i would really like to know what do you think about it! thanks.

Interesting transitional development. The final column (the cursive-like one) reminds me of shorthand. It's not pretty, in the usual sense, bit it is clear and and its not offensive. I like it very much as a utility script. :)

I find it useful and inspirational to see how you developed the handwritten forms from the Braille. Thanks for showing us that.

I toyed with something akin to this years ago. What I would be interested in seeing is either some calligraphy, or some attempts at making it cursive. I rather think the calligraphy might look something like this.

Thank you guys, I'm glad you liked the idea! fmra, I tried to make it functional and shorthand-ish without going crazy on the amount of rules, so in the cursive version i wanted each letter to as possible be done with only one stroke. but that is not a rule at all, different people could write it in different ways, more angular and in more strokes, what matters is that it keeps the configuration and you can understand the structure underneath. I didn't try much to make it look good because it still has lots of problem, but I'm getting out of solutions so I might do a decent font soon.. eldin, great to know feel it inspiring, thanks!! Sano, the elian script is pure eye candy calligraphic genius and I got very inspired by it! Glad you noticed. The concept of my script is totally opposite to that but I tried to give a freedom similar to that on elian script, of course in a more restrict way, it will never be as free in positioning the letters, but can be in length of strokes in some ways. I'm sure gonna try to make some decent presentation of this, thanks again guys!

It's pretty nice. I like the way you can see the gradual transformation into a more cursive/shorthand style of writing. Although probably wouldn't be very useful to anyone using braille, still an interesting concept.

My main concern was not to make the script usefull to people using braille directly. The braille dot system is great for what it is, it uses a relatively simple way to print the dots and that with strokes would be much more complicated to do for the sight impaired(and expensive in mechanical prints), in any script or else they would use our alphabet instead of braille. But on the other hand braille is hard to read and confusing for sight reading. The idea is that anyone can read the same thing. The sighted people could read the dot mode of the script even with more difficulty but they would know the configuration of the dots and could read it and write directly for the sight impaired in the dot mode. Now imagine a book or a magazine totally printed with raised dots, a normal braille print, now overlay that with a normal printed "connected lines" mode of the script and you have a print thats easy for anyone to read. Cheers!

Hi, just made some attempts at fonts: a more angular for computer use, still with the dots separated: and a more connected one, for print maybe, but i really dont like the look of this one, any suggestion? Also updated the chart on the first post with the Morse code mode and here is a quick explanation of how it works: