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Times New Yivalese Font Stacking & Modifiers Reference

The writing style of Valaksá, Yivalkes 300 years in the future, is pretty different from its original form at the time of the reign of Arami.

Whereas it used to function more logographically in the past with sound being inferred from meaning, the new form is way more left to right phonetic focused, with layers of ancient pronunciations being kept in official documents but not that much in common speech.

There are three cases for each of the 64 biliterals, Full, Mid, and Small cases, with some rare ones having more than one medium case, namely for the three persons, Them, You, Me.

In standardized text, full sized letters start phrases, mid cases start other words and follow phrase starts, and small case letters then alternate with mid cases, often with old fashioned pronunciations being kept as is.

However, each person along with fossilized phrases have their own voice, and thus this is not always the case. For example, someone could denote a scream by using all full letters, but using diacritics with them give a friendly childish vibe to it. Using nothing but mid case may give a more authoritarian or robotic voice, which can be soften with the off small cases here and there. Using nothing but small cases except for the first letter of a phrase being with a mid case is mainly used for transcribing another language, and starting words with a small case gIvE thE vIbE oF iRoNy.

For ease of typing on a Latin based keyboard, the following symbols for the middle case are accessible through single character that matches the usual pronunciation of said symbol.

Input Result Equivalency
P Bx Bx
F By By
V Yb Yb
T Dx Dx
S Dy Dy
Z Yd Yd
K Gx Gx
C Gy Gy
Q Yg Yg
J Wg Wg
M Nb Nb
R Lx Lx
H/A Xx Xx
E Xy Xy
I Yy Yy
O Xw Xw
U Ww Ww

Full Size Standard

Input Ex. Description
BB BB Full size

Size Modifiers

Input Ex. Description
BBbd BBbd Vertically squashed, with top centred
BBbdbg BBbdbg Vertically squashed, with top right then top left
Bb Bb Horizontally squashed
Bbbdbg Bbbdbg Horizontally squashed, with top then bottom

Positional Modifiers

Input Ex. Description
Bbbd Bbbd Vertically centred
BBbd! BBbd! Top on the right instead of centred
BBbd? BBbd? Top on the left instead of centred
Bbbd! Bbbd! Side on the top instead of centred
Bbbd? Bbbd? Side on the bottom instead of centred

Rotational Modifiers

Input Ex. Description
BB! BB! Upside down full size
Bb! Bb! Upside down horizontally squashed

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