Names and proper nouns can still be written in Baybayin, but they must be “Filipinized” using Filipino sounds and syllables. If you want to write a non-Filipino word in Baybayin, translate it first into a Filipino language, and then write the Baybayin of the translated word. Writing non-Filipino words in Baybayinīaybayin was obviously used to write Filipino words in Filipino languages, such as in Tagalog, Bisaya, Kapampangan, or Ilokano. Though as I write more and more in Baybayin, traditional Baybayin is indeed easier to write. Because I’m not a native speaker of any Filipino language, modified Baybayin is easier for me to read. Modified Baybayin seems to be the favored Baybayin these days by artists and enthusiasts like me. Baybayin, with this “vowel-canceling” kudlit, is also known today as Modified Baybayin. Lopez’s Spanish kudlit was originally a cross, but in my font, I use an “X”. The 3rd column shows the Spanish or Modifying kudlit. I did my best for a few days, and before the trial ended I exported my first Baybayin font.īaybayin kudlit usage. Making fonts was harder than I thought because you have to go over each one and see how they look side-by-side with other letters. Since I already had the characters, I imported each one into the software and made painstaking adjustments to each one.
This helped me make the artworks faster.Ī few months later, I found out that a popular font-making software called Glyphs Mini was available for a 30 day free trial. I then took characters from the set for each new artwork. With each new artwork came a new word that had to be written in Baybayin, and because it took time to write them out one after the other, I made all the characters at once. I used them for my first batch of illustrations for my Filipino Food Art and Philippine Wildlife Art projects. Initially these characters were drawn in Adobe Illustrator back in 2019. You can download it here for free! Feel free to donate a small amount to support my work! How I made my first Baybayin font I named the font after the thin brush strokes I made for it. I call this font Niwang Uno, niwang is Bisaya for thin or payat in Tagalog. There are some imperfections here and there, but I had a lot of fun learning about the process of making fonts. This is my first Baybayin font, and the first font I ever made. Baybayin is an ancient Philippine script that according to records so far goes back to the early 1500s.
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