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    <lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:18:14 +0000</lastBuildDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[“Draconic, Mechanical” by shard114]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://render.fontstruct.com/renderer/render?v=6a3742d2&id=2895321&w=1600&h=150&f=0&a=left&t=AaBbCc%2BHandgloves%2B123"/><br/><p>A mechanical, uniform version of Talon Sign.</p>]]></description>
      <link>https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2895321/draconic-mechanical</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[“Draconic Script” by shard114]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://render.fontstruct.com/renderer/render?v=6a1f9d2c&id=2894886&w=1600&h=150&f=0&a=left&t=AaBbCc%2BHandgloves%2B123"/><br/><p>This is an interpretation of the Talon Sign font as if it were written with a quill.</p>]]></description>
      <link>https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2894886/draconic-script-8</link>
      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[“Talon Sign” by shard114]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[<img src="https://render.fontstruct.com/renderer/render?v=6a2b5672&id=2885967&w=1600&h=150&f=0&a=left&t=AaBbCc%2BHandgloves%2B123"/><br/><p>I created this script for creatures with talon-like digits, such as dragons and lizardfolk.&nbsp; It looks best in larger fonts as the characters are easier to differentiate and the details are more obvious.</p><p>The characters are written using three talons simultaneously (thumb, index, and middle digit).&nbsp; There are three possible marks:&nbsp; Point (using the tip of the talon), Nail (curling the talon inward to press down with what would be the fingernail), and Slash (drawing a line inward toward the palm with the tip of the talon).</p><p>I organized this along the standard alphabet, matching the characters by how easy I found them to make with my own hand to the standard use frequency of English, though I imagine this would work better as a character/symbolic script than strictly representing the alphabet.</p><p>With three marks per character and three types of strokes, we get 27 possible combinations for characters.&nbsp; Conveniently that means 1 per letter of the alphabet, with one left over.&nbsp; I added a single character that uses a fourth stroke, Turn (rotating the tip of the talon in a curve to the right), for all three strokes.&nbsp; This fourth stroke did not work well with the other three to make more combinations, but is easy to perform with all three digits.&nbsp; I mapped the 27th left over character and the Turn character to the Period and Comma keys for ease of typing, though I suggest that they not be used for those purposes.</p><p>I imagine this to be an expedient language to write, as each character can be written with a single action, allowing for a proficient writer to scribe multiple characters a second.&nbsp; This would be work better as a top-down script rather than a left-right, as the characters would be easier to distinguish in that orientation (and I also imagine it would be easier for a quadrupedal dragon to write in rows parallel to its body rather than perpendicular).</p><p>Outside of this as a written font, I also imagine that it could be used as a form of sign language, or even used on the body of another as a form of silent, tactile communication.</p><p>For convenience, I mapped the 4 triple characters ( all Point, Nail, Slash, or Turn) to they !, @, #, and $ keys for convenience rather than purpose, should you want to meddle with it.&nbsp; You can copy and paste an part of a symbol into another character editor and it will keep the same position.</p>]]></description>
      <link>https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/2885967/talon-sign</link>
      <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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