stradivariholmes wrote:Scarf wrote:Ahh, Sherman
(Shermannnn *shakes fist*). Have you seen
Doctor's Cot Gallifreyan? I'm really into promoting it, the person who designed it is a real legend and let me play around with painting one of my ties with it recently. I think it's a lot nicer and more consistent personally (everyone thinks that Sherman's is consistent but it's really not at all :/), and it's designed to look canonically like the writing on the Doctor's cot, so that's cool.
Also
Greencrook. But that's much trickier.
(hullo there Paladog)
Blah blah, caught the Gallifreyan fever, et cetera... My question is for Scarf: is your problem with Sherman's translator? So far it seems pretty consistent to me as an alphabet.
I've tried to download the generator on two computers to illustrate my point, but it just won't work :/ Thankfully tumblr's circular gallifreyan tags can help.

This says 'Allons-y'

This also says 'Allons-y'

This says 'Bad Wolf'

This also says 'Bad Wolf'
From memory (from when I did have the translator on my computer because I needed it for a tie I was working on) if you press the 'translate' button multiple times it'll give you multiple ways of writing things. I did that to try to find the more attractive versions. That might not be a feature of an upgraded translator, I don't know.
I also dislike Sherman's because I think it's ugly? It's rigid and harsh and nothing flows together in that beautiful way that the writing that features on the show does. It's ok for little things like names sometimes but when people start writing sentences it's just...again, I wish I had the translator working to prove my point, because I dislike pulling out things that people have done and pointing at them and going "dat ugly", but when it's used for whole sentences and speeches? Yeah, it doesn't do it for me.
I should probably note that
this is me in my spare time so yeah. The Gallifreyan on the show really ticked all of my boxes for aesthetic beauty (I love the runaway flow-y geometricness of it), so I got a bit obsessed with drawing it and the rest is history I guess >>