Be warned, all who enter! Here there be silliness.
These are some of the miscellaneous writing systems I’ve played around with. They wouldn’t be especially practical for humans to use, but they were fun to make and some of them look neat. I gravitate to abugida-like scripts, where the consonants have their own full symbols and the vowels are more like diacritics, so that’s what most of these are.
Boop
Pretty simple. The vowels are straight lines inserted into the consonant. Can be written vertically or horizontally.
Caterpillarese
Chroma
Consonants are dot patterns, vowels are color. Can be written vertically or horizontally. Tone can also be indicated with a change of dot shape.
Clover, Grassy, and Rootle
Clover and Grassy are really two different styles for the same system; Rootle is its own thing.
Constellatian
Each word starts in the center and traces to the letters in order, marking them with dots.
Labyrinth, Path, and Spinnic
Each word starts in the middle and expands outward. Vowels depend on the position of the consonant they follow, starting over the top line and going clockwise. Path is the alphabet shown; Labyrinth is the same but with inner radial vowels instead of outer parallel. Spinnic is similar, but circular rather than hexagonal and with more varied vowels.
Lu
Mosaic
Consonants kern in a zigzag. Can be written vertically or horizontally.
Pixi and Stix
In Pixi, the consonants rotate and the vowels go along; in Stix, the vowels are the rotation. H, W, and Y are treated as vowels. Can be written vertically or horizontally.
Skwiggli
Each word starts with a small loop or dot in the center, then traces the directions toward its letters, skipping the center space (although there’s a variation that can write whole phrases in one stroke, using the space as a character). Line length is unimportant. Bumps mark multiple spaces moved in a direction, full curves mark letters, loops mark double letters.
Tecton
Trellish
Waving
Yuni
Yuni! Quite possibly the silliest of them all, but I like it, and so does my six-year-old niece.
Vowels are encoded by the stance and posture of the equine. Consonants are encoded by where they’re placed, and their position in the word (which vowel they go with) is encoded by the shape of the marking the equine bears at that place. Double vowels are encoded by coloring in the tips (horn/forelock, hooves, wingtips). The equine only has wings if the word calls for them. There are two main font styles, full and stick-figure.
