Cloud and Rain

Cloud and Rain (Felhő és Eső) is an alternative script for Hungarian invented by Radványi Balázs, who uses it to write his diary. It has a vertical mode (Cloud / Felhő), and a horizontal mode (Rain / Eső), which uses mirrored letters and is written in horizontal lines, from top to bottom.

Notable Features

Type of writing system: fully vocalised abjad
Direction of Writing: right to left in vertical columns
Used to write: Hungarian
Vowels are written with diacritics which are attached to the consonants or to a vowel carrier, usually to the right.
The consonants have four different shapes: initial, medial, final and standalone.

Cloud and Rain (handwritten)

Cloud and Rain

Positional forms of consonants

Cloud and Rain - positional forms of consonants

Cloud and Rain - palatalization and other modifications

Vowel diacritics

Cloud and Rain - vowel diacritics

Obligatory ligatures

Cloud and Rain - obligatory ligatures

Cloud script (printed)

The printed form has only one form for each letter, there is no connection between letters, it is written horizontal, and the diacritics are slightly different.