Cloud and rain

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Cloud and Rain (Felhő és Eső)

Cloud and Rain (Felhő és Eső) is an alternative script
for Hungarian invented by Radványi Balázs, who uses it to write
his diary. It has a horizontal mode (Cloud / Felhő), and a vertical mode
(Rain / Eső), which uses mirrored letters and is written in
vertical lines, from top to bottom.

Notable Features

  • Type of writing system: fully vocalised abjad
  • Direction of Writing: right to left in vertical columns
  • Used to write: Hungarian
  • Vowels are written with diacritics which are attached to the consonants
    or to a vowel carrier, usually to the right.
  • The consonants have four different shapes: initial, medial, final and
    standalone.

Cloud and Rain (handwritten)

Cloud and Rain

Positional forms of consonants

Cloud and Rain - positional forms of consonants

Cloud and Rain - palatalization and other modifications

Vowel diacritics

Cloud and Rain - vowel diacritics

Obligatory ligatures

Cloud and Rain - obligatory ligatures

Cloud script (printed)

The printed form has only one form for each letter, there is no connection
between letters, it is written horizontal, and the diacritics are slightly different.

Consonants

Cloud script (printed) consonants

Vowel diacritics

Cloud script (printed) vowel diacritics

Punctuation and numerals (printed & handwritten)

Cloud script (printed) punctuation and numerals

Sample Texts

Sample texts in the Cloud script and printed version of the Rain script

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