Display alphabets that read as one script at first glance and as Latin capitals at second glance. Built glyph-by-glyph with AI image generation, curated by hand, traced to vectors, and compiled to real installable TTFs. Part of implausible.enterprises.
Faux-Egyptian pictorial writing: an ibis, a seated pharaoh, a scarab, a rearing cobra — each posed so its silhouette is a Latin capital, with carved incision lines normalized to uniform monumental weight. Born as prop-writing for Mecharon, the buried colossus of a D&D campaign; the players can, eventually, just read it.
Latin capitals rebuilt in the stroke DNA of Tamil script: monoline rounded curves, loops, inward spirals and the occasional puḷḷi dot — no straight lines, in honor of the palm-leaf manuscripts that punished them. At first glance it belongs on a Chennai shop sign; at second glance it's English.
Install on a Mac: download the TTF, double-click, "Install Font." Both faces map A–Z and a–z to the same display capitals; basic punctuation included. Free for personal use; made by Fauna and Harry Pottash.