BWoRM - A Conang Abugida Script
BWoRM is a conlang cursive abugida script read from top to bottom. It is named BWoRM because it looks like Worms and because it looks pretty when words in BWoRM start with the letter B. The capitalisation serves as a clue of how to read BWoRM.
Inspired heavily by Baybayin, with further influences from Thai and Mongolian, while designed for writing English, BWoRM is my feverish attempt at making a conlang script that didn't just look like Latin characters, while still making sense for people to have developed it and to have been writing it for years. As such a large part of this project was writing a lot of scribbles in BWoRM and feeling when something was off. This inexplicably made the script top to bottom. It was originally going to be left to right but it kept feeling better going top to bottom. I think that may be a unique weirdness of my own.
The cursive nature of BWoRM makes it a bugger to make an actual font of. If I were making a script for a game I would absolutely avoid that wherever possible. or at least have a guaranteed space where the letters would join up! alas and alack this isn't that.
BWoRM was made in a day.
B-Wo-R-M
A geometric styling of the script! I figured this would be useful from the get-go. The nature of this particular script would make it a bugger to make into a font. it would be basically all ligatures, in a similar manner to Arabic.
Po-Pi
This is a more traditional style for the script. I wanted BWoRM to feel nice to write, like people had been writing it for centuries anywho, so I wound up making lots of simplifications.
A more corporate-style BWoRM font. The Baybayin influence of BWoRM really shows through on the Sa
A bit of a cheat-sheet for BWoRM!
No Diacritic means the constonant has an "A" vowel sound, a / diacritic gives it an E or I sound, a \ diacritic gives it an U sound, and an O diacritic gives it an O sound.
Early drafts of BWoRM, already top to bottom by this point but still haven't figured out how to get around bumping into diacritics as a problem. Testing on my mine and my brother's names.