Abjoid Blocky One
This is a proof-of-concept font, just to model a script that I created. It can be used to type with, but it isn't beautiful and it isn't perfected. It is literally just a model font file to contain the basic glyph shapes and their relationships, via shared glyph elements, anchorings, etc. This font is blocky and angular, solely to contain the structure; the conscript is designed so that it can be written in a cursive flow, much like Arabic. I'll upload some images of my handwriting in it some time soon.
You can learn about my conscript Abjoid on my conscripts gitbook website:
Info table
Version
1.11
Availability
Free, GitHub
Latest release
3 August 2025
Inception
23 July 2025
Supported scripts
Other glyphs
Abjoid conscript glyphs are based in the PUA of Unicode. You need a custom keyboard layout to type it.
However, I have also mapped Latin letters to approximately equivalent Abjoid glyphs, so you can type in it with your regular keyboard albeit incorrectly.
Issues
GitHub
Link to the github page to download.
Behance
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Font sites
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Alphabet
include: Vector image of all glyphs
Diacritics
include: Vector image of all glyphs with respective diacritics
Numerals
include:
Vector image of numerals
Vector image of dot-derived numerals
Sample words
include: Vector images of a range of words, specifically ones containing NewEng letters
About Abjoid conscript
Letters: five base consonants, consonant diacritic modifiers to construct many phonetic sounds.
Vowels are based on a vowel system attuned to my personal vowel model hypotheses.
Indirectly supports Latin alphabet and NewEng script orthography with equivalent Abjoid letters.
Can probably support a range of other scripts, but is not tailored for them as of yet.
Can be used to type English, but it's only functional as a cypher, because the Abjoid glyphs represent mouth positions and relative phonemes, whereas Latinate glyphs in English represent a complex (and oft broken) array of sounds and phonetic mutations.
Letters
For Abjoid conscript, the five base phone letters are mapped as such:
lip
behind upper teeth
behind lower teeth
palate
velum
More base phone letters may be created in the future. Thus far, it seems that most languages I've studied only use up to 5 distinct regions.
Several languages feature co-articulation or nearly so.
English has x which is pronounced /ks/, this isn't co-articulated but we can combine the lower-teeth and velum base phones to produce a new glyph: [[ KS glyph here ]].
Vietnamese features /ΕΝ‘m/ and /kΝ‘p/ which are co-articulations. We can combine the lip and velum base phones to produce a new nasal glyph [[ here ]] and a new stop glyph [[ here ]]. (However, it should be noted that the lip closure is not actually phonemically required, rather it just provides greater contrast between words with front-mouth and back-mouth vowel nuclei. Thus, it may be erroneous to encode this in the spelling format, but it has been pronounced as such for many generations so also it is probably fine to record it as such.)
Diacritics
The diacritic modifiers follow the basic shapes of the modifiers in the Abjoid foundation conscript, but have been drawn in such a way as to be writable within one pen stroke with the letter if possible, and to provide a visually distinctive shape so that the reader can discern the letter and word more quickly:
To do: export each glyph within a set frame so that all the glyphs render at the same size in this table.
Unaspirated, unvoiced
None
Aspirated
Dot above
Voiced
Dot below
Aspirated & voiced
Dots above and below
Fricative, unvoiced
Circumflex above
Fricative, voiced
Caron below
Nasal
Ring above
Breath
Ring below
Glide
Three dots above
Breathed glide
Three dots above, ring below
Silenced letter
Grave above
Resources for using Abjoid
Keyboard layout (Windows only, for now)
Abjoid conscript usage guide (how to convert IPA to Abjoid, and how to type Abjoid)
Font: Abjoid Blocky One (you are here)
Font: Abjoid Latinate One
To Do
Further development
incomplete aspects of the font
diacritics, etc
maybe create word-initial and -final glyph forms, akin to the Arabic abjad script style. That seems like a tonne of work but it would make me learn all about OpenType features.
Fixes
include: bugs β glyphic, kerning, diacritics
Variants
My first foray into adapting the Abjoid conscript into Latin-based glyphs, attempting to produce a hybrid script that blends Latin letter shapes and consonant diacritics, enabling NewEng orthographic spelling.
Abjoid Latinate One also contains a few bespoke letter adaptations to respect the letter variants in the English alphabet, such as C-K-Q and the vowel-consonant Y.
ideas for typeface variations β stylistic exploration
ideas for font variations β weighting methods, serifs, italicization, etc
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