About this site

Origins

I have been interested in alternative writing systems for almost as long as I can remember. One evening, I had a sudden burst of inspiration while in the shower. Sketching on the foggy glass, I started designing my own orthography, which I called RIVÍZD RIT·N IÑGLI$. It was based on our familiar Latin alphabet, with each letter having a strictly consistent sound value and employing diacritical marks to allow for additional sounds to be spelt.

After showing this to my friends, I starting researching existing constructed scripts for further inspiration. As soon as I found Quikscript on Omniglot, I knew it was much better than anything I could hope to design by myself. With its simple-yet-distinct letter shapes and large number of possible ligations for fast, mostly-cursive writing, it looked wonderful; I was particularly mesmerised by the samples of Senior Quikscript towards the end of the Manual. I printed out the Manual and studied it while I ought to have been studying for my exams.

At that time, there were very few web pages devoted to Quikscript and lot of information on it was still obscure. I envisioned new website to help promote the alphabet; showcasing materials that I had made, digitised from physical books, and collected from various places around the internet. That vision became a reality in early 2020.

As the site grew, its structure became inadequate. Newly-added pages were buried from the onset; other Quikscript enthusiasts tended to be unaware of content I had published years earlier. To help remedy this, the site was revamped in late 2024. Besides beautifying the design, the navigation system was overhauled and many more section breaks and subheadings were added for better signposting. That way, all of the material I spent time and effort to produce was made more easily accessible to readers.

Scope

For his site, the Quikscript Outpost, Stephen Bartok's policy is to exclusively host content that he himself made. I greatly respect this philosophy and generally follow it for my own site, tempting as it is to fill it with as much material as possible.

I make a few exceptions to this, however—for example: where items were not previously (or are no longer) available anywhere else online, or where I have processed PDFs with OCR, so that the (orthodox) text can be searched and copied.

The general principle remains, however, that this site is not intended as a one-stop-shop for all things Quikscript. The other linked websites contain many unique and useful resources of their own, and I implore interested readers to give them a look, too!