Hi all
Tony suggested that I give a brief intro to my typeface. It is a phonical face that is made up of the most frequent spelling of the 44 common sounds of the English language. I am trying to give visual hints on how to say the sound, which letter to emphasize when speaking the sound. As well as look at visual representing phonic blends and cluster. The typeface trys to make one aware of the phonical structure which the English language is built within.

renee, i think your idea is really interesting. it looks like maybe you're using the boldness to show emphasis -- like the dictionary accent marks, but built directly into the letterforms. or maybe scale is for accents. or maybe scale is to show one thing, and bold is to show another? i'm getting something there, so that's a good start. i really need some context to see how this is supposed to work.

perhaps people can 'learn your (visual) language' by seeing how familiar words are treated, then deducing how other words are handled based on what they know. for example, if they know how to read and pronounce 'renee' and they see the last three letters are bold, or larger, they take that info to 'spaghetti' and learn where the emphasis should be when sounding that word out. but you've probably already considered that aspect of things.

good idea -- keep forging ahead.

I wonder even how far you can go with actual words together creating new words. Certain phrases are spoken more quickly and the words sometimes come together and sound like one big confusing word. make sense? haha. so how would you show someone sounding excited and saying "WE HAVE A NEW PUPPY!" compared to " "We have a new puppy," she said with a sigh " with just type. (just an example)

I took a linguistics class last semester, which was super interesting, and am therefore super interested in your attempt here. Like tyler said I would really like to see is it implimented in words. what a good experimental way to see if the emphasises works. write a word, write a phrase, sentance, novel. how does it change? Maybe this face could also have a color aspect to it where, different regional dialects can be specified and that could further maybe help in the reading of the language by context.