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Some of the links below I mentioned in our conversation, but basically it’s me skimming my bookmarks on things that our conversation made me think of.

• Similar things:

  • !!!! writing systems - Generate random alphabet or glyphs? - Constructed Languages Stack Exchange
    • creates glyphs and has parameters to play with, as well as vocabulary!
    • (jagginess, min/max strokes/parts etc)
  • writing systems - Generate random alphabet or glyphs? - Constructed Languages Stack Exchange using AI generators to create something-that-looks-like-writing
    • and generally DALL-E / ChatGPT / … are really bad at doing text, and create many things that look like text but aren’t — maybe we can play with that
  • Some links I gathered in the context of that generating symbols paper of mine, not all interesting but…: Personal/My projects/Gesturehand - serhii.net LINKS BLOG!
    • Especially this, not directly relevant but we can look at the related links for vocabulary/concepts to help us think: Cognitive dimensions of notations - Wikipedia
    • Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks · Erik Bernhardsson

• Unicode attack where the same letter is represented by multiple identical glyphs: IDN homograph attack - Wikipedia

• Misc

  • Symbols.com
  • Very cool paper about upperest/lowerest case! Uppestcase and Lowestcase Letters: Advances in Derp Learning
  • Dotsies smallest font ever, not relevant to us but really really cool. Representing letters with basically dots
  • Reddit:
    • Neography: constructed writing systems
    • Generally creating languages: Constructed Languages for Language Geeks