heyyy I turned the Beta Kids’ handwriting into useable fonts!
these are very basic 60 character fonts! I will probably expand these into full fonts with numbers and special characters later (need to buy font software first). I am aware @taehyunglesbian did this in like 2012, but their fonts are no longer available for download. @rubysapphrald also did this in 2021 with all the kids and some trolls (theirs is still available for download). I wanted to try my hand at it too! Fair warning: these are somewhat anachronistic since we don’t see all the necessary letters from every kid— hence my choice of the word “reconstruction.” I will be working on Alpha Kids’ handwriting next! I haven’t found a sample from Jane, however, so pls send one to me if you find :o
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Galach Script interpreted from material shown in Dune (2021).
Over the past year in my free time I've been trying to make a simple fixed-width block letter font for the Galach script that's used in Denis Villeneuve's Dune 2021 adaption (or Dune: Part 1, as it's most likely gonna be called after the second part comes out).
Now, I didn't decode Galach– a lot of other people did independently. All the stuff in the movie is written in quasi-phonetic English (you can tell the accent of the people who wrote given segments because of it), though we have some very sparse bits of untranslated Galach in the books. It's described as descending from a anglo-slavic hybrid language, which is a very... Cold War-era anticipation of a future Lingua Franca twenty thousand years in the future. If Frank Herbert wrote it today, his 'anticipation' of Galach would probably use different root language families.
The basic structure of most letters are the same as in the movie texts. I like their weird dream-writing similarities to the Roman and Cyrilic alphabets as well as Ge'ez script, which is an absolutely beautiful abugida, and there's a vague level of featural-script level similarities between similar letters (particularly all vowels, and to a lesser extent plosives). There are a few letters in the uncial script that also look very similar (particularly the vowels and P, K, and R) and I took the liberty of adapting them from that (let's say formal) movie font into something with more distinguished letters when simplifying them to their shapes here. And I also changed the numerical system: it's not exactly as clean-cut a subdivided base 5 pattern in the movie's system as it is in this one. But hey, who's counting?
This font's called Poritrin Bold and it works, but there's a lot of snags in terms of which version I want to give to the fandom community. The first is that it's a 32-character alphabet for what's normally a 26-letter QWERTY keyboard– which shortcuts do I use? Can I just get away with enabling ligatures, when Office and most other app groups don't really support them? Do I also create a thin-letter and italicize-able version of Poritrin? Why is my brain making a clicking noise?
And that's not even addressing the issue of whether I should add those extra characters I suggested into the font, or add those replacement ones I designed. Lots of questions with arbitrary answers.
I created a Steve Font and a Bucky font: they are taken from the characters found in Steve's list in TWS and Bucky's list on TFATWS.
They are far from perfect because of rushing, but hopefully will be fun to use!
STEVE'S:
Takes most of the characters from the original US list, but I had to go and look into the alternatives ones to find some others (I'm not going to mention how hot I find that "Steve" used a graphic accent on the list shown in Spain), and I had to make up lowercase "j", Z and Q because they weren't anywhere.
BUCKY'S:
It's all uppercase since that's how his list is built, so you have to remember to turn your CAPS ON
As a "Surprise" if you type ❤ in any of them, you get an easter egg in the form of a Jerk/Punk glyph in the other's handwriting, hehe.
If you decide to use them for anything, I would love to see, since I'm a sucker for everything!Them
you can download them by clicking on each name or here:
