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Dr. Christine Schreyer's Kryptonian and potential for improvement

This is a post about the Zach Schneider era Kryptonian alphasyllabary and why I've around in terms of my opinion but also why i think this script can be improved. Firstly the characters initially looked far too complex and dyslexic unfriendly to be useful to anyone, the written text often looks too crowded with detail, however this is a necessary part of the Kryptonian style in these movies and the characters themselves aren't entirely impossible to understand. I think the problem with the system at the moment is the overhead details and topline. Here is an explanation of how the script works https://www.google.com/amp/s/dailyplanetdc.com/2020/09/21/understanding-schreyers-kryptonian-language/amp/. There are 6 vowel sounds with an additional slot for single consonants, the rotation determines the vowel for three of the sounds however the remaining four have no differenciation by rotation whatsoever, relying only on the small shapes above the character. In my opinion these topshapes should be removed and replaced with additional rotation and reflection (there are 8 configurations that could be followed which is more than enough). A problem this will cause is that words will be indistinct without a line keeping them separate however i believe the flowing organic shape could be improved by connecting the empty spaces of the glyphs in a way that shows extra information like grammar; after all the glyphs were made to all have at least one empty space.

This script has a lot of potential and shows real work on the part of Dr. Christine Schreyer: the shapes all fit a certain style and Kryptonian also includes a handful of logographic characters making this a dual script, one of my favourite types. I hope this great alien script follows the words of artifexian. Iterate iterate and iterate some more!

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