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Dotsies and why wordshape matters

Dotsies is a very divergent idea from what i normally find online as a script. It's very imaginative in terms of glyph shape making and is obviously incredibly dense in terms of size (not that thats generally an aim for neography). The whole concept is quite simple and in my opinion incredibly effective as it captures the alien like properties of standard galactic (the Minecraft enchanting table script) and old school kryptonian. The main thing that differenciates this script from all others is the fact it can generate fully unique shapes purely out of phonetics making this a rare alpha-logography. Before this script I never really cared about word shape, many of my first projects had hard to separate alphabetic characters and no care for the overall space that a word fills however this script has been a real eye opener: make every shape as close to a morpheme as is phonetically possible and have a variety of shapes to make them blend together to form complex objects that are more recognisable.

After analysing dotsies I've taken more care to make abuguidas that combine in morpheme unique ways and which separate out more easily. If you're working on a new script I highly encourage a unique form of combination between characters in a word like the devanagari topline (something I'm working on encorporating into sitakai) or even using vowels as differently shaped connecting lines in a type of abjad (like im doing for old Kryptonian).

I cannot stress enough the sheer uniqueness of this system however I have a number of issues with it i would love to improve upon. Unfortunately these improvements may be too difficult for me to finalize, if any of you are interested in a candidate for the world's densest writing system feel free to comment >:)

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