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psychoslavetoday at 10:41 AM0 repliesview on HN

Excellent, I’ll look back at it when I find time to progress on my own pet project of custom numeral notation.

Specification: each cipher from 0 to 9 is using n+1 stroke, using only horizontal, vertical or left-bottom to right-top orientations. They also have distinctive traits that let them be identified even with only the very top or very bottom part. So 0 looks like / for example.

I also went above base 10 and made enough glyph to cover a sexagesimal base. The constraints on the drawing are then looser, so to go up to 20 we had a single "\". Incidentally and funnily enough that makes the 10th glyph look like a X. Then to get up to 40 glyphs, we simply square the 20 previous ones. And the plan to reach the 60 glyphs is to have a circled variation.

I’m not versed in the art of font crafting, but I would love to find someone to work in common on that one.

Here is a draft with the first steps for those interested:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alternative_cipher_n...