Write your character's name

Is Eorzea even really that accurate? Personally I would think it be Hydaelyn but I guess we haven't seen the rest of the world to make that judgement. But I would assume when we do see future continents I would guess them to keep the font the same.

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Originally Posted by Majoga

Is Eorzea even really that accurate? Personally I would think it be Hydaelyn but I guess we haven't seen the rest of the world to make that judgement. But I would assume when we do see future continents I would guess them to keep the font the same.

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Hard to say... the Garleans might have their own writing system for example. It wouldn't be unheard of in SE's previous games. FFX's Al'Bhed used a different style in Spira, and I'm pretty sure Pulse and Cocoon in FFXIII also varied.

I uh.
I don't write by hand much anymore...
http://i2.minus.com/juYtSub3CVFQK.jpg

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Originally Posted by Myranda

Hard to say... the Garleans might have their own writing system for example. It wouldn't be unheard of in SE's previous games. FFX's Al'Bhed used a different style in Spira, and I'm pretty sure Pulse and Cocoon in FFXIII also varied.

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Haha the Al'Bhed, I remember me and some friends in high school way back when actually learned to read and write in that language for use in online games. So long ago really couldn't remember it just that had a linkshell at beginning of Xi named Rusihlime (Homunculi)

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Originally Posted by Majoga

Haha the Al'Bhed, I remember me and some friends in high school way back when actually learned to read and write in that language for use in online games. So long ago really couldn't remember it just that had a linkshell at beginning of Xi named Rusihlime (Homunculi)

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That's true Al'Bhed did the substitution cipher too, I was only meaning the separate glyph style they had in addition to the cipher. http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/Language for a full overview of scripts in all the FFs.

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Originally Posted by Gramul

I uh.
I don't write by hand much anymore...

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I lol'd :)

https://photos-5.dropbox.com/t/0/AAD...68&size_mode=2

BLARGH

My best attempt by hand:
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/8767/tygersig1.jpg
My attempt in paint with the caligraphy pen:
http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3027/tygersig2.jpg

What it looks like with Myranda lovely font:
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/4236/tygersig3.jpg

http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6f6b2945.png
Bamboo Pad & Pen~

Since I am posting my name I will tell you guys how I came up with my name if you are interested =)

Lilith - Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.

Ali - Elvish suffix for shadow

Zenevieva- In Celtic the meaning of the name Zenevieva is: The Pale One.

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http://i1201.photobucket.com/albums/...ps6f6b2945.png
Bamboo Pad & Pen~

Since I am posting my name I will tell you guys how I came up with my name if you are interested =)

Lilith - Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. This contrasts with Eve, who was created from one of Adam's ribs. Lilith left Adam after she refused to become subservient to him and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael.

Ali - Elvish suffix for shadow

Zenevieva- In Celtic the meaning of the name Zenevieva is: The Pale One.

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Lilithali? Found this for you What's the story behind your name Love the meaning of yours and this thread is just as fun and interesting as this one we are on.

Thanks OP for a great read. :D

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Originally Posted by Myranda

Ok, I said I wasn't going to, but some people also did alternate characters and such, so I'll throw in just a couple more because I love this thread (though I've done many more than this):

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...WzYx0M5I2Y.png

Top one is a RL friend's character that never visits the forums so I figured it'd be ok to post (Sarjenka Drema, for those who have trouble reading Eorzean, which is most people). Went for a slim, elaborate style I thought would befit an elezen.
Bottom one is my rarely used miqo'te alt, Kalyke Harpalyke.

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Really nice.

Faris yours is good too.

Now I have to really try and not be lazy.

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Originally Posted by Geesus

Lilithali? Found this for you What's the story behind your name Love the meaning of yours and this thread is just as fun and interesting as this one we are on.

Thanks OP for a great read. :D

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Oh! Thanks! =D
I didn't realize they had a thread for that.

http://i47.tinypic.com/wisw38.jpg

Got bored at work but all I had with me was a pen lol

My MS Paint attempt:

The N is f*cked, i know. Wish i had a touch screen or something.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...psde97302e.png

http://i.imgur.com/B3BE6Ihl.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/iXdSzJK.png


http://i.imgur.com/wg2dImw.png

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http://i.imgur.com/iXdSzJK.png


http://i.imgur.com/wg2dImw.png

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After doing my one finding it so much easier to read this now
So far way from my home sweet home Uldah" ^^

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...W1aXw-fSkA.jpg

I really had a lot of fun with this. Hard but fun :) Thanks Op

Dzian you were to write not type you lazy boy /pokes forehead

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e6...624b3b8a8a.jpg

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e6...13fb25c037.jpg

Pretty cool. Surname is long as hell though :P

[edit] Derp

Here are mine, one with some flourishes and other without

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...psdc78d00b.jpg

And, here is just my first name in brush. Its been a while since I used my brush it is horrible need to start practicing again.

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps9661305b.jpg

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...W275arufTI.jpg

I had a crack... one of my E's went wonky.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2rm3yp2.jpg

This font is really growing on me... Except for the horrible symbol for B I'd actually consider using it for my actual signature...

Eh, figured I'd give it a shot. Yey Wacom!

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-H...0Signature.jpg

I'm having a heck of a time doing cursivey writing with an emphasis on "flowing" (without picking pen up off paper) rather than just fancy looking. The structure of several letters like s and h are difficult to write in a smooth motion, requiring retracing or sharp changes of direction that make the letters look rough or pulled-apart when I write them, and L and I become almost indistinguisable. Anyone have any thoughts on this stroke flow or flat-out stroke change (think s to cursive s in English)?

Taking some liberties to borrow from English cursive, I'm writing a lower case L to be a bit taller with a slight loop in it while an I looks basically like an English cursive i without the dot. For e I'm writing it more like a 3.

As an example, I found A and a are actually not too hard to write cursivey:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/6483/83381986.jpg

(this is hard to do with a mouse!)

I don't have a brush or marker, though. Just practicing with a pen. Might scan something at office later.

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Anyone have any thoughts on this stroke flow or flat-out stroke change (think s to cursive s in English)?

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I'm by no means even close to knowledgeable about calligraphy and typefacing, but my own opinion holds that because Eorzean lettering seems to (in many cases, at least) deliberately swap parts of typeface anatomy in favor of aesthetics that depart from a more classical Latin/Roman alphabet, applying sweeping, cursive strokes might be a futile exercise.

It very well may be! Just curious if anyone else had tried anything similar.

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Originally Posted by Mishaela

I'm having a heck of a time doing cursivey writing with an emphasis on "flowing" (without picking pen up off paper) rather than just fancy looking. The structure of several letters like s and h are difficult to write in a smooth motion, requiring retracing or sharp changes of direction that make the letters look rough or pulled-apart when I write them, and L and I become almost indistinguisable. Anyone have any thoughts on this stroke flow or flat-out stroke change (think s to cursive s in English)?

Taking some liberties to borrow from English cursive, I'm writing a lower case L to be a bit taller with a slight loop in it while an I looks basically like an English cursive i without the dot. For e I'm writing it more like a 3.

As an example, I found A and a are actually not too hard to write cursivey:
IMG
(this is hard to do with a mouse!)

I don't have a brush or marker, though. Just practicing with a pen. Might scan something at office later.

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I'm by no means even close to knowledgeable about calligraphy and typefacing, but my own opinion holds that because Eorzean lettering seems to (in many cases, at least) deliberately swap parts of typeface anatomy in favor of aesthetics that depart from a more classical Latin/Roman alphabet, applying sweeping, cursive strokes might be a futile exercise.

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I don't want to go so far as it can't be done, as someone out there may be more creative than me in figuring it out, but I will say it's tough to do, especially without gross changes to at least some of the letters.

Of particular trouble (at least as far as my experience goes) are those letters in Eorzean that are basically just mirrored Latin letters (i.e. the a, e, y and to some degree j and q). As a result, the ending hooks tend to be on the wrong side of the letter to smoothly flow into the next. You seem to have come up with a workable version for A, but the others I think will be tougher. c and g have extra vertical strokes compared to normal Latin variations too, making it hard to decide how to link the letters together without drawing too many connecting strokes over the strokes of the letters proper.

Also, not only is it hard to distinguish i and l, but add t as a 3rd letter than can be confused with those two as well, since in Eorzean it has no distinguishing crossbar.

http://i1225.photobucket.com/albums/...psa82c225f.jpg

FUN!

As with anything it takes familiarity and time with making cursive strokes. Think of our own cursive and how we tend to make indications of certain letters as opposed to actually writing them out. An "i" for example or an "r". Same can be said for cursive in any language. Take the types of calligraphy from eastern languages.

http://dorianwacquez.files.wordpress...avey_shodo.jpg

Is a good example. Parts start to get omitted, but the basic form still exists. For Eorzean I think the flags would be the first to be omitted. So

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0...00/Cursive.jpg

and so on and so forth. With time comes efficiency and arguably sloppiness ;).

http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...W89rW9DTa8.png

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http://static2.finalfantasyxiv.com/a...W89rW9DTa8.png

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Calligraphy pen?

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Calligraphy pen?

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Pencil lol

Seems there is a interest in cursive forms. I have been working on making cursive form of Eorzean for over a month actually might be 2 months now.

Well it is not quit done as of yet, but this is my rough draft for the chocobo contest (if I get it done in time).


http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t...ps09da6136.jpg

As you can see, even though endings tend to be on wrong side to flow to next you can loop back. I have also made L look like English L and I for lower case I's. For T and F I create a loop on the top hook and this actually came to me after looking at the twin adder's poster.

Also, characters such as e, s, and others I forget, you can trace back on them. With practice it is not to difficult. I do it all the time in English, especially with O's tracing back up to half of it depending how I entered it.

If you guys like I can make out a cursive alphabet list.

As with anything practice makes perfect. And, how Gramul so eloquently put it with his comic.

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http://i2.minus.com/juYtSub3CVFQK.jpg

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That literally happened to me when I was learning cursive.

- Edit: (Don't you hate it you remembered something after posting.)
For E's I got back and put the line, same as I do with T's with English.

I've gone and done more exploring of this cursive idea after more studying of your guys' attempts and looking at cursive forms of regular Latin letters. It required a lot of undoing/redoing of strokes, but I wouldn't rate it as tough as I initially thought it would be, and here is the result:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/448/eorzeancursive.jpg

I also did this partly as a planned update to the fancier font I released because I wasn't satisfied with the lowercase letters in the initial version of it. As a result, the cursive is a bit different than how one might truly go about it by hand since I designed it to have all letters connect at a single unified height so any letter combination can flow together when typed (i.e. no high- or low- connection variations) as part of said font. Lower case "c" was by far the most annoying letter in cursive, and I did make one compromise where the final stroke of lower case "w" is not connected and has to be done like dotting an i or crossing a t. I made no attempts to include connecting upper case forms for now. In any case, you can use this as a basis and make alterations from there.

For those interested in the font including cursive, I've got the Illustrator work down, but still have all the importing to do to actually make it a font, so you'll have to wait a little longer.

Please look forward to it. Hai. *bow*

Best I can do with Paint, but I have a Wacom tablet at home, I'll try later tonight with that.

http://sphotos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphoto...81262568_n.jpg

Edit: As for 'joining' letters, you don't have to force-join every single letter to get cursive about it. In Arabic for example (which I happen to know), some letters are incapable of joining, you just start the next letter disconnected. It's just how it works.

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I've gone and done more exploring of this cursive idea after more studying of your guys' attempts and looking at cursive forms of regular Latin letters. It required a lot of undoing/redoing of strokes, but I wouldn't rate it as tough as I initially thought it would be, and here is the result:

http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/448/eorzeancursive.jpg

I also did this partly as a planned update to the fancier font I released because I wasn't satisfied with the lowercase letters in the initial version of it. As a result, the cursive is a bit different than how one might truly go about it by hand since I designed it to have all letters connect at a single unified height so any letter combination can flow together when typed (i.e. no high- or low- connection variations) as part of said font. Lower case "c" was by far the most annoying letter in cursive, and I did make one compromise where the final stroke of lower case "w" is not connected and has to be done like dotting an i or crossing a t. I made no attempts to include connecting upper case forms for now. In any case, you can use this as a basis and make alterations from there.

For those interested in the font including cursive, I've got the Illustrator work down, but still have all the importing to do to actually make it a font, so you'll have to wait a little longer.

Please look forward to it. Hai. *bow*

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Love it, makes mine look like chicken scratch.

Not sure if I should just scratch mine efforts and use yours or not.

My shot!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...psbfcb9b9a.jpg

http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/5...2c24ab75c2.jpg

Second try, missed an 'e' the first time :3

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/5...ojimboname.jpg

Hello! Greetings to everyone. Normally I'm just kind of a lurker on the forums, but I thought I'd give this a shot... Kind of focused more on just making it handwriting, and not so much on where the extra little curves and curls are. x3

Click!

(Sorry, it's kind of big. I didn't want to stretch the page or something.)