> Thoughts? Not bad! > More common consonants use smaller (sparse) dot patterns getting denser as you get into less common (frequent) letters A few mappings

> Thoughts? Not bad! > More common consonants use smaller (sparse) dot patterns getting denser as you get into less common (frequent) letters A few mappings emphasizing fewer dots for frequent letters (making for "sparser" words) were tried out and moved away from. The more speckled-looking words tend less to form concrete shapes and create "blocks" that stand out to the eye. If words are too dense you get similar issues, only in the negative. The optimum seems to be on the sparse side, but not overly sparse. > Also worth noting: where possible I tried to make the glyphs memorable ("i" is the best example, followed by "o" and "z") The original dotsies O and I are relatively memorable. > More common consonants frame the center dot (to contrast the vowels which touch the edges/outside dots) I could see how that could be interesting. How that would balance against the trade-off of ambiguity between similar letters (like s and t) would probably be hard to tell before one tried it. I wonder if it would be worth coding up a page that lets people make their own mapping and preview them on some text, and posting it to HN.