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Trunic / trunik

dha riisanc i meid dhis peidj

Trunic is a conlang made for the game TUNIC to evoke the sense of playing a game imported from japan where you don't understand a word and bumble about. Befitting of that is a charming manual written mostly in Trunic, and, of course, most of the text in the game is written in it as well. Trunic looks like this:

The reason I'm enamoured with trunik is because I achieved the feat of learning it with the hints the game gave me (and also the small help of a few hint guides on the internet...) to the point of being able to sight-read it! (albeit slowly... and harder words still throw me off a lot...). I believed it would've taken way longer, but all it took was just two to three intense play sessions scrutinizing the literature to really learn it. I never thought I could learn something like that so quickly and it felt a bit eye-opening to see how capable our brains can be. That slight eye-opening experience is the reason I like this language so much.

Now imagine, if you will, my excitement levels when I discovered that a madlad named Adrián Jiménez Pascual made an actual font for this language! I installed it, wrote a bit with it, and besides it being a bit janky and un-intuitive, it felt like magic to just type letters and see the glyphs form and morph live, right there.

It was only 1-2 weeks later when the idea came to me that this font could potentially work embedded on my website – and now look at where we are!