to check out

• http://www.cjvlang.com/index.html

basics

• graphemes / glyphs, i.e. characters / logograms/ideograms
• writing systems
  • abjad -- alphabet with vowels not represented.
    • 'impure abjad' -- vowels may be indicated occasionally or with diacritics
  • alphabet -- each consonant and vowel is represented by one glyph/letter.
  • syllabary -- each separate syllable is represented by one separate glyph/letter that are not related to each other.
  • abugida -- aka alphasyllabary a syllabary where syllables with the same sounds in them are represented by consistently similar shapes; in some, consistent diacritics are used to represent vowels.

letterform etc inspo in my book (not complete)

• real world scripts
  • Hangul
  • Hiragana
  • Katakana
  • Byblos syllabary
  • Tibetan alphabet
  • Bopomofo
  • Tocharian alphabet
  • Meroitic alphabet
  • Lontara alphabet
  • Zaghawa / Beria / Camel script
  • Chinese radicals and Kangxi radicals
  • Pahawh Hmong
  • Mongolian alphabet
  • Cypriot syllabary
  • Brahmi (incomplete)
  • Lepcha alphabet
  • Celtiberian
• undeciphered scripts
  • Vinča symbols
• conscripts
  • Bamum
  • Kpelle
  • Cilthic
  • Chumauni http://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/chumauni.php]
  • Avorentas
  • Codescript
  • Rencem

other construction & form resources

• real world scripts
  • Japanese writing systems
    • Kanji
    • Hiragana
    • Katakana
    • Japanese typographical symbols
  • chart with several Indo-European scripts
  • Phoenician
  • Linear B
  • Roman cursive
  • Siddham syllabary
  • Khitan small script
  • Avestan syllabary
  • Pahlavi
  • Ranjana
  • Manchu alphabet
  • Geba syllabary
  • Nüshu syllabary
  • Georgian alphabets
  • Old Uyghur alphabet
  • Old Turkic Runes
  • Vai syllabary
  • Carrier syllabary
  • Ge'ez alphabet
  • Beria/Zaghawa alphabet
  • Mongolian Todo (Clear Script) syllabary
  • Moon Type
  • 'Phags-pa syllabary
  • Soyombo (Mongolian) syllabary
  • Luwian page ///// <pdf>
  • Tifinagh (Berber) abjad & alphabet
  • Yi Syllabary
  • sample texts
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  • variant/defunct letter shapes
    • Carolingian g
    • Insular g
    • Sampi
    • Thorn þ
  • cursive inspo
    • Syriac alphabet
• conscripts
  • ✔ Block Script
  • Pitman Shorthand
  • Cirth
  • Tengwar
  • Hildegard von Bingen's littera ignota
  • gyaru-moji
  • Toki Pona
  • N'Ko
  • Klingon
  • Puella Magicka

variants

• scribal abbreviation
  • Breviographs
• 'grass'

punctuation, numbers, etc

• spaces between words & word dividers
• Chinese
• Japanese
  • Chōonpu
• Korean
• CJK quotation marks
• unicase vs bicase
• numbers
  • Japanese
  • Mayan
  • tally marks in different cultures
• gershayim and geresh (have several uses)
• interpunct (")

calligraphy & lettering

• Chinese calligraphy
• Chinese script styles
  • Oracle Bone Script
  • Banpo, Longshan etc Signs
  • Regular Script, Kaishu
  • Semi-cursive, Xingshu
  • Cursive, Caoshu 'Grass'
• Japanese calligraphy
  • edomoji (lettering styles)
• stroke order in CJK

Latin alphabet hands & fonts

• Visigothic alphabet
• image depicting evolution of Latin-based scripts

other info

• complete list of writing systems
• synchronic digraphia
• other interesting scripts
  • my list of conscripts from Omniglot
  • chart showing evolution of uncial scripts
  • Egyptian hieroglyphs
  • Hieratic
  • Coptic alphabet
  • Ogham
  • Glagolitic
  • Armenian alphabet
  • Pallava alphasyllabary
  • Thai abugida
  • Mongolian Clear Script
  • Lao alphabet
  • Tangut
  • Dongba
  • Ersu Shaba pictographs
• abecedarium
• pangrams
• defective scripts
• On Beyond Zebra! by Dr. Seuss