Chromaglyphs

Chromaglyphs was created by Dickson Broach, a former head of a ecological revolution coalition and retired computer programmer. His goal has been to create a writing system that combines the strong points of both logographic and phonetic language representation paradigms that can be easily reproduced as a logo on various surfaces like T-shirts. Notable features Vowels are represented as pure color, filling the space enclosed by surrounding consonantal shapes. Consonant blends, sometimes referred to as consonant clusters, are considered individual letters, resulting in an alphabet of 220 symbols and 14 vowel colors. Words whose symbol plus punctuation count is 8 or less all occupy a single square, with the very small percentage of words longer than this accommodated by a continuation feature. Syllables within a word are stacked vertically from top to bottom, with their heights compressed as necessary depending on how many a word contains. Punctuation is indicated by black-and-white pattern-filled shapes appended at the bottom (or top) of the word after which they would be postpended (or before which they would be prepended) in normal writing. Digits are indicated by spelling out their first syllable, with numbers assembled by stacking up to three digits per word square. Used to write Chromaglyphs are currently intended only for Langua and any other language whose vowels, consonants, and consonant blends are a subset of those used in that particular language. There is currently no provision to represent the many sounds used in other languages yet. For example the alien leading consonant blend Ja is not accommodated, and therefore a geographical name such as Jambu, would have to be spelled according to the sound of the Langua name for that country (just as the Jinnistani would not try to accommodate the sound of "Arcadia"). Chromaglyphs will ultimately become known as Lang:Chromaglyphs to signify that it is specifically to code for Langua. Work is currently underway on adaptations for Wajin, Tonghua, and Dehlavi (W:Chroma, T:Chroma, and D:Chroma).

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