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Ineon    Ineon

The Ineon alphabet was devised in May and June 2012 by Martin Harvey. The original idea was for a writing system that would look imposing inscribed on a monument and could also be used to insert cryptic messages/in-jokes into his artwork. However, while playing around with Adobe Illustrator he realised that for other purposes, a more decorative, rounded script would look better. The former became Ineon Monumental, the latter Ineon Rounded.

As mentioned above, the script is phonetic, but only up to a point - otherwise it would be useless for writing any other accent of English than that of its inventor. It is not intended to make writing faster, and can therefore be thought of as something of an artistic endeavour.

The name Ineon is derived from a more phonetic respelling of inneon, the word for "nine" in the English Romani language. Each character can be thought of as being divided up into a grid of nine smaller squares, with consonant lines drawn along the grid lines and vowel/number dots occupying one or more squares. This is particularly evident in the case of Ineon Monumental.

Notable features

Ineon alphabet

Ineon grid

Positions of lines as related to consonantal qualities

Positions of lines as related to consonantal qualities

*lateral and palatal share a position as the inventor was running out of places to put lines.


Ineon consonants

*the phoneme /x/ does not, of course, belong to Received Pronunciation, but, as the inventor is something of a scotophile, he cannot abide to hear the word “loch” being pronounced as “lock”

**this is a mistake. The letter representing the phoneme /t/ should actually look like that representing the phoneme /ŋ/, albeit rotated 90° anti-clockwise. It is, however, a mistake that is never going to be rectified, as the inventor has had a T-shirt made with Ineon characters on it. Oh well, nobody's perfect.

Vowels and Diphthongs

Ineon vowels and diphthongs


Ineon punctuation


Ineon numerals

As mentioned above, the design of the numerals is based on the positions of the 1s and 0s in binary, although the counting system is base 10.

How Ineon numerals works

Sample texts

Sample text in Ineon Monumental script

Sample text in Ineon Rounded script


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