This was quite helpful and you are probably the only person to even broach this subject at all... anywhere online. I've been in a long desperate search for literal years. Again, thank you so much.
Glad you found it useful. Its part of a series documenting the methods and tools I use. Sadly I got bogged down by RL and havent kept it up. I hope to do the next video soon though :)
Sorry for the late reply but glad you found me. I am dividing my time up between work and hobbies and have been letting the conscripting slack for a bit but I will be getting back to it soon I hope.
I have been looking forward to this series ever since you said you'd be doing it. Can't wait for the next instalment. Thank you so much! Very informative.
I find your content really great! I've been creating a numeral based language, it's kind of an experiment but it's going really great so far, it uses base 12 instead of the normal base 10 we use, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then it resets to 10, instead it resets when it gets to 12. It's really hard to explain it but you get the idea, your content is really helping me get through the designing process of it.
Glad to hear you appreciate the content, I am going to produce the rest of the videos in this series but I am rather time constrained at the moment so its a slow production process. Good luck with your conlang design :)
I don't know if it's silly to ask, but is there any possibility of being able to create a real font on a phone? If possible what apps could I use? I have investigated however I only find apps to make alphabets, and that is not what I am looking for. Hope someone can help me
Not a silly question. The first problem is that the contents of a phone are gated by the manufacturer, you can't simply load stuff onto them easily. Quite likely you would need to jailbreak it and that causes lots of other problems. The second problem is that anyone you communicated with would not have your font loaded on their phone and thus communications would fail. The only way I can conceive of this working would be to build your own app just for using your font and convince others to use that app to communicate in your conlang. That of course presents its own host of problems and will likely cost you money to pay for being a developer. Its something on my far horizon to try and explore but not something I have looked into in any depth. There is another option of course, you can build your font as a WOFF (I think thats the term) file and use it on a webpage. Anyone visiting that page with a browser *should* have that font downloaded to their system while visiting the webpage, at least on a PC/Mac/Linux system, I am not at all sure what happens there with a phone. Thats something else on the list to do and explore. I think my font software supports doing that and I believe I produced a WOFF font version at least once in the past. The long term project would be to build a language pack for desktop computers (sadly one for each OS). This is not a documented solution that I have found any information on and likely requires a developer account as well to get access to the information. With a language pack for say MS Windows users could install your conlang as a language including font support - at least I think they can. The problem is determining the required standards, filling in all of the information (which would I believe include all of the text used by the OS *anywhere* in the OS as your language version etc). Tons of work to find out if it would even work. Quite likely you would need to have your writing system incorporated as part of the Unicode standard as well - and that is essentially not possible as far as I know. I could be wrong on all this, perhaps there is a way but I think it unlikely at this time - other than WOFF fonts on a webpage which may or may not work properly. An experiment for the future. If they do work then it might be possible to build a message board in your conlang that lived on a server somewhere.
@@ThatFontGuy Thank you very much for your comment, I think it is difficult but it is possible. I like your content and I hope you continue reporting on this topic. In my language it is difficult to find videos that explain as well as this one. thanks for your help
@@oldskoolgaming my native language is Spanish. In my language the conlang community is not known, there are videos explaining what the conlang is, but they don't go very deep on the subject
This was quite helpful and you are probably the only person to even broach this subject at all... anywhere online. I've been in a long desperate search for literal years. Again, thank you so much.
Glad you found it useful. Its part of a series documenting the methods and tools I use. Sadly I got bogged down by RL and havent kept it up. I hope to do the next video soon though :)
Oh this is so extremely my shit, praise be to the algorithm for putting you on my homepage
Sorry for the late reply but glad you found me. I am dividing my time up between work and hobbies and have been letting the conscripting slack for a bit but I will be getting back to it soon I hope.
I have been looking forward to this series ever since you said you'd be doing it. Can't wait for the next instalment. Thank you so much! Very informative.
Glad you enjoyed it. I got busy with RL for a while there but I will try to keep making new videos for ya!
I find your content really great! I've been creating a numeral based language, it's kind of an experiment but it's going really great so far, it uses base 12 instead of the normal base 10 we use, like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and then it resets to 10, instead it resets when it gets to 12. It's really hard to explain it but you get the idea, your content is really helping me get through the designing process of it.
Glad to hear you appreciate the content, I am going to produce the rest of the videos in this series but I am rather time constrained at the moment so its a slow production process. Good luck with your conlang design :)
Glad to see you back to making videos!
Yes its been too long, thanks for watching :)
What website is this?
I was wondering where you went, great content. 😊
Thanks! 😃
I don't know if it's silly to ask, but is there any possibility of being able to create a real font on a phone? If possible what apps could I use? I have investigated however I only find apps to make alphabets, and that is not what I am looking for.
Hope someone can help me
Not a silly question. The first problem is that the contents of a phone are gated by the manufacturer, you can't simply load stuff onto them easily. Quite likely you would need to jailbreak it and that causes lots of other problems. The second problem is that anyone you communicated with would not have your font loaded on their phone and thus communications would fail. The only way I can conceive of this working would be to build your own app just for using your font and convince others to use that app to communicate in your conlang. That of course presents its own host of problems and will likely cost you money to pay for being a developer. Its something on my far horizon to try and explore but not something I have looked into in any depth.
There is another option of course, you can build your font as a WOFF (I think thats the term) file and use it on a webpage. Anyone visiting that page with a browser *should* have that font downloaded to their system while visiting the webpage, at least on a PC/Mac/Linux system, I am not at all sure what happens there with a phone. Thats something else on the list to do and explore. I think my font software supports doing that and I believe I produced a WOFF font version at least once in the past.
The long term project would be to build a language pack for desktop computers (sadly one for each OS). This is not a documented solution that I have found any information on and likely requires a developer account as well to get access to the information. With a language pack for say MS Windows users could install your conlang as a language including font support - at least I think they can. The problem is determining the required standards, filling in all of the information (which would I believe include all of the text used by the OS *anywhere* in the OS as your language version etc). Tons of work to find out if it would even work. Quite likely you would need to have your writing system incorporated as part of the Unicode standard as well - and that is essentially not possible as far as I know.
I could be wrong on all this, perhaps there is a way but I think it unlikely at this time - other than WOFF fonts on a webpage which may or may not work properly. An experiment for the future. If they do work then it might be possible to build a message board in your conlang that lived on a server somewhere.
@@ThatFontGuy Thank you very much for your comment, I think it is difficult but it is possible. I like your content and I hope you continue reporting on this topic. In my language it is difficult to find videos that explain as well as this one. thanks for your help
@@imlimli what language do you speak? Glad you enjoy the content :)
@@oldskoolgaming my native language is Spanish. In my language the conlang community is not known, there are videos explaining what the conlang is, but they don't go very deep on the subject
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i wanna give it a like, but, you know, its at 69 :/
liking it anyway, i made a sacrifice here XD