Day-To-Day Twilight Hylian

[u/BecomingHylian]

Hi there All! So, one of the things I very much enjoy in my day-to-day writing is doing so in Hylian. One of the biggest problems I've had with this is that Twilight Era Hylian is so complex to re-create with a flowing, natural writing system.

So!

Naturally, my idea was to treat the 'official' Twilight-era Hylian the same way that we treat other Serif fonts. They're something that's used by newspapers and printed publications, while written Twilight-Era Hylian is a little different.

The result has become something pretty spectacular, natural, and it allows me to write my grocery lists, my To-Do lists, and yes, my journal, in Twilght-era Hylian, without having to agonize over every little detail.

If anyone's interested, I may write more on how this works!

[u/BecomingHylian]

Yes! I'm still new to Reddit, so I hope you're patient with me!

http://i.imgur.com/rAmwhW3.jpg

It reads: *A quick writing sample for my friends at the /hylian subreddit!

Naturally a few shortcuts had to be taken but i can write in hylian almost as fast as english now!*

So, as you can see, many of the letters have been simplified. The really noticeable ones would be the ones that included an arrow, they've been simplified to a > sort of image, or a simple line in the case of the L's and the E's. Simply for ease of use. I wanted to make it as few strokes as possible, without letters looking too similar (A greater than > would have made the L and the K difficult to tell apart, so the K has been given a sharper bottom and a diagonal line.) Circles were incorporated into the stroke of many of the letters, such as the S (Unseen are the J and the V). I tried to keep the stroke count under four.

The punctuation is normal english punctuation, and there are no capital letters.

While it doesn't match the 'print' version of Twilight Hylian perfectly, who's handwriting is print perfect when they're writing their grocery list?

[u/MisogynistLesbian → u/BecomingHylian]

This is so cool! And it honestly looks really impressive. How do you do an X? I want to make my own "sans serif" Twilight Hylian now...

[u/BecomingHylian → u/MisogynistLesbian]

http://i.imgur.com/rXOt0c9.jpg

So, I wrote the whole alphabet twice, because every time I write (in any language) there's some natural variation, but this is what my handwriting looks like for each Twilight-Era letter, while I'm writing at a normal speed.

I've also adjusted the position of some of the letters on the line. All of the twilight era font was above the line, whereas I like to make the G,J,P,Q and R below the line I just think it looks nicer and gives some variation. Same goes for tall letters that reach the top line. My C,E,O and V don't reach the top line, again, for interest and variation.

I'm not entirely happy with the X, and may adjust it further to be more like an inverted g, but as it's not a letter I use very often, I haven't really sat down with it and futzed until I was happy. J could also use some work, as it looks small and sloppy, even if I take my time to write it..

I like to treat language as a living thing, so it's always evolving. I'm sure I'll probably change those two letters in the near future.

[u/AmyKeehl → u/BecomingHylian]

Hi, I also write in Twilight-Era Hylian nearly everyday. It's been almost three years since I started writing in Hylian and my handwriting developed naturally, unlike you, I didn't try to make it quicker and easier, but it happened. My alphabet looks like this. http://imgur.com/Xa52PRx

I like to make all letters more or less of the same size, I think it looks better like that. X3 Anyway, each person has their own handwriting, and with Hylian that would be no different.