#vulcan script

i feel like im breaking some secret tumblr rule showing my face but i can trust you guys? right? right?

Look i made a vulcan robe it took months of hand-sewing cause i dont have a sewing machine

hand embroidered! and then i met jonathan frakes at a convention! i got a picture with him but it’s Just For Me

Hi friends, it has unfortunately been a difficult month, so I've got to push our Torch and Arrow shop a bit to try to make ends meet, thanks in advance for any signal-boosting or support!

Vulcan Jewelry on Etsy

I recently did a total overhaul of my Vulcan Jewelry on Etsy and changed the organization of it entirely. I’m hoping this will make everything easier for me and a better experience for you guys! 💕

My name pendants in particular continue to be hugely popular and they make me so happy! I’ve also done quite a few custom orders for wedding jewelry at this point which blows my freaking mind!! 🤯 I’m just so thankful for everyone’s support!! 💕 💕

Handwriting.

Listen, I know what Tengwar looks like when it’s well written, but what does a grocery list from a harried mother look like in Tengwar??

What does the hurried scrawl of an 8 year-old Vulcan child look like, in the 22nd century specifically because WOAH that’s cool??

In Star Wars’ Galactic Standard, you have the questionably canon High Galactic, Aurebesh and Outer Rim Basic.

Much to my delight it seems Convallarias made a cool calligraphy version of Aurebesh that I love the look of:

after finishing Star Trek: The Motion Picture and realizing i have no chill, i immediately restarted it with the commentary and have things to report

so the commentators discuss the vulcan script on those hella flattering robes spock wears upon his return to the enterprise

according to the costume designer, bob fletcher, these glyphs represent three words:

Rata ("concept"), Tafar ("discipline"), and Tapan ("process")

i’ve also seen the latter two clarified as referring to “mental discipline” and “cerebral process”. anyways, that’s pretty cool and definitely tracks as far as the uber intellectual vulcans are concerned

BUT bob fletcher took this a bit further in his notes. he elaborated that the conceptual meaning behind the combination of these words is:

“branches entwined form the tree”

and that’s beautiful. the whole movie is a commentary on the need to go beyond the “cold logic” of both the vulcans and v’ger. and here we have spock walking in with these poetic-ass robes which are honestly a slap in the face to his Kolinahr training. 

Na’Shaya! Thanks for the ask!

You start a new column simply when you run out of space (much like a new line in a horizontal language like English). Calligraphers will try to not split words in half, except on some occassions with compound words. Depending on the piece and the text some calligraphers may choose to try and fit a sentence on each column or to split it in a specific place, but this is not necessary, specially if you’re writing a longer text.

If you start a new column but you’re continuing the sentence from the previous one, you will need to connect the column to the row line with a mark called a kik (”hook”). You may also choose to place a kliton (arrow) at the end of the previous sentence to let the reader know that the sentence is not finished, but the kliton is usually skipped in more formal texts.

If you start a new column that is also the start of a new sentence, the column will connect with a different mark, called a fo (”shell”), and the last character of the previous sentence will end in a longer stroke called a wu-harr (”long tail”).

By “a new row” I’m guessing you mean a brand new horizontal line with its own kharat-ulidar, if that’s the case then it would just be when you’re starting a new page or a whole new calligraphy piece. Sometimes though, calligraphers will start a new row to mark an ongoing sentence, and attach it to the column where it starts.

This all sounds really confusing to explain but check out the example below to see how the rows and columns connect and the different symbols used, I hope that is easier to understand! (the text is the About section from the Korsaya website).

By the way, the alphabet’s name in Vulcan is Vanu-tanaf-kitaun (”traditional calligraphy”), but everyone will know what you mean if you say calligraphic script :)

LLAP! 🖖