F Yeah Gallifreyan!

I'm obviously not active in the Gallifreyan community anymore and I'm not going to be doing anything with these files. So I figured I may as well make them all public for people to use however they want.

Commercial Use

While I am happy for you to use these files for what ever you want even if it's commercial please note that aside from my own Clockwork there are many files here that contain Sherman's/Sirkles and Doctor's Cot.

For Clockwork do what ever you want but credit to either fyeahgallifreyan or @timelordnicky is appreciated.

Sherman's is also free to use for any reason. To quote their own website: "The BBC has ultimate say over whether you're allowed to call it "Gallifreyan," but this writing system is free for all to use. Credit to Loren Sherman and/or a link to this page is appreciated."

The creator of Doctor's Cot statement on commercial use can be found here.

What is a .dpp file and how do I open it?

These are the original files from DrawPlus (the predecessor to Affinity Designer). They are vector files so you can easily edit and move things around if you want to. Full versions of DrawPlus are no longer legally available but the free version can be downloaded here. When I tried it it did ask to register but it worked with the Legacy Registration Key 881887. If you are still struggling to open a .dpp file you can message me on my personal blog @timelordnicky.

Will you proof read something for me?

Sorry, my Gallifreyan is very rusty at this point. I'm sure if you asked on the Gallifreyan reddit or discord another member of the community would be happy to help you.

remdemtion submitted:

Hey! Do a lot of people here make their own gallifreyan? Not completely my own. Based off of Sherman but little tweaks. Still read counter clockwise starting at the bottom of a word circle. But I start at the middle of a circle sentence and go out from there wrapping around the words eventually. I think it’s kind of cool… How about you whovians?

Quite a few people have designed there own Gallifreyan. I have a list here, although it’s somewhat out of date now, and my own is here.

Thanks! Line and dot placementis very dependent on style and personal preference but I’ll try andgo though how I do it.

First of all if you haven’talready mark each letter with the lines and dots it’s supposed tohave just so you know where they are, it doesn’t have to be neat.

It won’t look like anythingamazing at this point but don’t worry about it.

I like to space my dots outsemi-randomly, trying to fill in some of the blank space, and spacingout dots of various sizes. I do vowel size and placement in a similarway, but obviously they’re a little more restricted on where theycan be placed.

I like the look of perfectconcentric circles and arcs, so I’ll draw a few circles and seewhat I can get to line up, moving the letters a little if need be.

Leaving line markings foranything not yet connected so they don’t get forgotten.

I try to use the remaininglines to break up some more of the white space. Curves are good forfilling in the blank space to the sides, but I like to have a fewstraight lines just for variation. I just experiment a little withdifferent ways to fill in the space. The advantage of using vectorgraphics is you can just move things around until you’re happy withthe result.

I break up the remaining whitespace with sentence circle indents.

To finish of I add some linethickness variation. I try to space out lines of different thicknessover the design.

Final proof read (little rustyso apologies for any mistakes I missed), and done!

Try not to worry about thedifferent possibilities just try a few things and see what you likethe look of, you can always change it.

Something I drew, although only small, was used on the cover of a Gallifrey CD. Which would be awesome and all if it hadn’t been lifted of an image search with out permission :/ 

It says “Bow ties are cool” in Doctor’s Cot Gallifreyan

“All of time and space” in Sherman’s Gallifreyan with styling inspired by the confession dial. 

You mean the request page? The FAQ itself dosn’t say, so I don’t have to update request information in multiple places.

Most of whats in the IPA diacritics isn’t defined in Clockwork as it is. Is there something specific you need? I’m pretty busy with work atm so probably won’t have time to work everything out for a while, but if you can be more specific I’d be happy to try work something out.