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Chapters, not postsEight series, each with a fixed chapter grammar. A series is book-ready at a declared chapter count; completed series move to Naisu Press as volumes.
WI·INVThe InventorsOne chapter per named script designer — Sejong, Sequoyah, Mashtots, the Barry brothers. Writing as an act of deliberate design.Papers1 of 12 published WI·DECDecipherment DossiersCase-file format: corpus, key, method, breakthrough. Champollion, Ventris, Knorozov — then the open files of the Vault.DossiersIn preparation WI·BIOBiographies of LettersOne grapheme traced across four millennia: ox-head to alpha to A. Twenty-six chapters equal one book.PapersIn preparation WI·DCRThe DecreeWhen states change their letters: Atatürk 1928, Chinese simplification, quốc ngữ, Kazakhstan's transition, Mongolia's restoration.DossiersIn preparation WI·CONConservation FilesRevival by ordinance, curriculum, movement, museum, or a single designer: Tifinagh, Baybayin, Osage, Nüshu, Javanese.DossiersIn preparation WI·MCHThe Machinery of TextThe invisible conventions: where the word space came from, the history of punctuation, capitals, diacritics, Arabic joining.PapersIn preparation WI·ADMAdmission ProceduresHow a script enters the digital world: the Unicode pipeline, Han unification, the Zawgyi decade, why Maya still cannot be typed.DossiersIn preparation WI·ORTOrthographiesSpelling as fossil record: why English is chaotic, why Tibetan froze, and what a shallow orthography buys a learner.PapersIn preparation
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The King's Alphabet
Sejong the Great · Hangul · Korea, 1443–1446. The best-documented act of script design in history: a stated brief, a published rationale, a hostile review, and a five-century adoption curve.
Hangul is proof that a writing system is a designed interface — and that the quality of that design has measurable human consequences.
Read the chapterDoctrine: grain not rank · provenance first · one file, no dependencies · WCAG AA. If you see □ tofu anywhere in these halls, your device lacks a Noto font — which is precisely the problem Noto exists to solve. See the Tofu Room, Floor 4.