[Tepatî]

Concept by Drabkikker, generator by Victor. September 2024

Input
Output

Move the slider to try another configuration. You can save the output by right-clicking on it. If you want to edit it in a program like Inkscape: each box is 64 pixels wide.

i was thinking about rain all day;but it fell while i was sleeping

Key
; to separate sentences
a/ modifier 1
a// modifier 2
a/// modifier 3

The modifiers can be used to write special characters in your language. For example, in Polish, you could write z/ for ź, and z// for ż. Or in Hungarian, o/ could be ó, o// could be ö and o/// could be ő.

How it works

Every character consists of two boxes, which are on top of each other:

boxes

Every character has a code:

table

The numbers stand for the amount of line segments per box. An apostrophe means a dot underneath the character.

A horizontal or vertical line counts for 2 line segments, while a diagonal line counts for 1:

line segments

A line which is on the border between two boxes counts for both.

Thus, an a (5,3) can look like this:

examples of the letter a

Because boxes can share lines with each other, the configurations can get very efficient:

example of shared lines

Now without the auxiliary lines. Can you read what this says?

quiz