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The Codex Seraphinianus, 70s Italian illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with an equally imaginary writing system. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/neography@lemmy.world

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[–] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is sick! I've seen a lot of systems inspired by this style before and it's obvious why😁. I think it's cool that the individual letters have lots of detail but also form very interesting calligraphy like shapes when together. I assume theres no meaning but still the style is to be admired.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I believe in an interview the artist said there is no translation, and that it means whatever you wish.

If you look on the page I posted you can see examples of what appears to be an ancient form of the same language. More chunky and angular than what comes after.

[–] Darthjaffacake@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Yeah I saw that script in the photo, it looks very strange and there aren't really any scripts at the moment that look like that for a number of reasons, but still could be interesting. As for the art though, I'm a real sucker for descriptions of drawn science/history with neographic writing.