In the perso-/arabic writing system, letters take on one of up to four different shapes depending on their position in a word, and how or if they connect to other neighboring letters.
While I was learning how to write in persian, I wondered if every letter could be reduced
to a single form while maintaining its readability. This worked for a lot of letters, but quite a few exceptions needed to be made in order to write fully readable sentences.
Year: 2017
Tools used: Illustrator, Glyphs
The aim of this experiment was to see if adapting the Perso-Arabic script to the logic of the Latin letter system could help language learners like me—a German raised with the German alphabet—better understand and use it.
It is not an attempt to "fix" the script. Writing systems reflect the cultural context they emerged from and are thus tailored to fit the specific characteristics of their languages. Instead, the goal is to explore ways of bridging these two writing systems.