1. Along with emojis, pictograms enable self-evident and sentences – if redesigned in letter-size.
2. The thesis: just the pictograms for
I and You could trigger visual writing.
3. Experiment: Download a free font with 10 pictograms to create regular sentences along with emojis.
With 1000 emojis you can‘t write a regular sentence
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Experiments
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Pictograns to use
Visual writing becomes a game with three balls: with pictograms & emojis & letters.
2005 Gros, J.: Entwicklung einer Icon-Sprache.
in: Piktogramme und Icons, Abdullah, R.,
Hübner, R. (Hrsg), Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz.
2006
Gros, J.: A Language of Icons,
In: Pictograms Icons & Signs
A Guide to Information Graphics.
Abdullah, R., Hübner, R. (eds.).
Thames & Hudson,
New York, London.
Japanese and Chinese Edition
2007
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Animagrams
The next but one milestone on road to visual writing more
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References
2011 Gros, J.: Pictoperanto
Pictograms, Icons, Pictorial Fonts
Grammar and Vocabulary
ISBN 978-3-8423-7864-3
2006 Gros, J.: Icon-Typing
Pictograms and Icons in OpenType
ISBN 3-8334-3261-6
German / English
On the Digital Road to Visual Writing
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Animojis
It‘s a different point of view: emojis representing words: more
Where?
When?
If a visual writing evolves, so does
visual handwriting.
See: Manu-Script.
Gros, J.: The Digital Rise of Handwriting and Illustration iBook 2013
Pictomoji Pictogram-Fonts SocialMedia Animagram Animoji Manu-Script Links
1988-2021 A short history of letter-sized pictograms
Visual sentences translated with
emojis and pictograms.
Visual sentences enabled by a free font with 10 pictograms.
Visual grammar and sentence building
Pictograms may change the game, because
only they are eable represent abstract terms
like I and You.
Gros, J.:
Visual Writing at the State-of-the-Art
Pictomoji
A language with pictograms & and emojis by keyboard