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I'm partial to Mongolian.. It also has top to bottom but has an Arabic lace like cursive style which makes it flow much better than Japanese. https://en.m.wiki

I'm partial to Mongolian.. It also has top to bottom but has an Arabic lace like cursive style which makes it flow much better than Japanese. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script

huevosabio 2y ago
That's a very cool script! And it looks remarkably like Arabic. At first I thought it was a descendant from Arabic, but a Wikipedia detour shows that the most common ancestor is actually Aramaic script.
- noufalibrahim 2y ago
  Yeah. Another one I like but not quite as much is Tibetan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script It looks like some kind of alien runes. It's not vertical and has discrete letters but nevertheless, looks nice.
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xelxebar 2y ago
That is quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Are you familiar with Japanese grass script? It has quite a different feel than the Mongolian, but it's a type of Japanese cursive that flows really nicely IMHO: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93#/media/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Calligraphy_of_Cursive_and_Semi-cursive_styleby_Dong_Qichang.jpg https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93#/m... which is actually a fairly legible example. Admittedly, the more flowing styles that you see in old poetry and the like effectively require specialized training to read. Beautiful, though!
- noufalibrahim 2y ago
  It does look nice. The letters still look discrete though which is beautiful in itself but different from what attracts me to cursive style hands like Arabic.
simonask 2y ago
Wow, that article makes me appreciate how far we've come in 20 years in terms of font rendering and text layout.
qingcharles 2y ago
Good resource for Traditional (vertical) Mongolian here: https://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolbichig.html https://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolb... Example: http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home

huevosabio 2y ago

That's a very cool script! And it looks remarkably like Arabic. At first I thought it was a descendant from Arabic, but a Wikipedia detour shows that the most common ancestor is actually Aramaic script.

noufalibrahim 2y ago
Yeah. Another one I like but not quite as much is Tibetan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibetan_script It looks like some kind of alien runes. It's not vertical and has discrete letters but nevertheless, looks nice.
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xelxebar 2y ago

That is quite beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Are you familiar with Japanese grass script? It has quite a different feel than the Mongolian, but it's a type of Japanese cursive that flows really nicely IMHO: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93#/media/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AB:Calligraphy_of_Cursive_and_Semi-cursive_styleby_Dong_Qichang.jpg https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8D%89%E6%9B%B8%E4%BD%93#/m... which is actually a fairly legible example. Admittedly, the more flowing styles that you see in old poetry and the like effectively require specialized training to read. Beautiful, though!

noufalibrahim 2y ago
It does look nice. The letters still look discrete though which is beautiful in itself but different from what attracts me to cursive style hands like Arabic.

simonask 2y ago

Wow, that article makes me appreciate how far we've come in 20 years in terms of font rendering and text layout.

qingcharles 2y ago

Good resource for Traditional (vertical) Mongolian here: https://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolbichig.html https://www.cjvlang.com/Writing/writmongol/websitesinmongolb... Example: http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home http://khumuunbichig.montsame.mn/index.php?home