<!>Pretty Scripties Showcase Thread (2019-03-18 11:23:24)
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? Rhetorica Your Writing System Sucks
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Woah, time out. The minuscule ylf can't have that shape for its second stem. You'd have to use an unevenly-cut quill to draw it1, and it would be completely impossible with a normal fountain pen. To keep the stroke consistent with the rest of the script, the tip needs to be symmetrical, so either both sides of the stroke narrow symmetrically or neither do.

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Whenever you see a shape like that, it's either a typographic fantasy or the rest of the script has to look the same way. Font designers regularly work under the assumption that they're designing strokes that would be produced by some pen or other instrument that obeys rules that are impossible for a real pen, but are internally consistent nevertheless. As you've generally been very consistent with the Sunchí script in presenting it as a humanist hand—the other exception being the serif on the minuscule fimfa, which is at least writable with the tip of a flexible pen or quill, although it would be time consuming.

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1. Such an instrument would not be usable for anything else in the entire script unless it's held backward; even to achieve the stroke drawn requires holding the pen at a very unusual angle. This would be more comfortable for a left-handed writer, but it would still put unusual pressure on the pen tip to draw the top of the stroke, as the left side of the tip would be longer than the right.