using this manual, but it doesnt always spesify the direction of everything. like it it always write the g going up or down?, or the k, or c? i just started this, please tell me if i should use a different manual or if im missing something. thank you

Kinda curious how personal style changes the script over time.

I'm just starting and using mitsumi no's website as well as the orthic book. So far I'm really enjoying learning it, and I'm excited to start making notes in it

hi all! I'm very new to orthic. i didn't see "my" in the common words list and not in the dictionary either. how would one write it?

I recently started learning, this was my attempt at writing both “decadence” and “Cassidy.” Any advice would be appreciated!

I wanted to know if what is written is correct? Also, where can I find practice sheets for words?

What is the reason for using YA instead of AY after TDVJQMN? I figure it's to create a sharper angle after TDVJQ, which might be easier to write at speed. Not sure why to do it after MN, though.

Practicing again with the weekly quote from r/shorthand.

its been a while ive been practicing orthic but i cant seem to get how to use w

ive been through cheatsheets, yes, unfortunately though i still dont get it

I’ve been practicing Orthic for about a week, and I’m still in the sslllooooww writing phase, working on the forms. Any comments welcome!

So I often like to find fun technical projects that stretch my skills in some way and I have dabbled a bit in orthic over the years.

I was curious to try and start a project for generating orthic text for reading practice. I like orthic over other shorthands because it is based on spelling so easier to do this.

It looks there is some unicode extensions for some shorthands (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shorthand_Format_Controls) and I also found there some opentype shaping that gets used in languages like arabic where letters change shape based on what they are next to.

Obviously the first would be fully written but would be cool to have some reporting style abbreviations in there eventually.

Does something like this already exist? An easy way to generate orthic shorthand(that I know is right)? We will see if it ever gets off the ground since I know it would be a ton of work and I admittedly sometimes have a short attention span.

I switched to writing this because I thought it would be shorter than the Cask of Amontillado. Wrote in both fully written and ordinary.

this 2026 I'm making it a habit to journal in orthic. it's been years since i last practiced, and I've forgotten a lot, so i would love to get some feedback!

Im trying write something for an art project and I have been learning shorthand but I make a lot of mistakes, I'm not sure if what I have written is actually recognisable as what its supposed to say. It's supposed to say 'carrigan' in shorthand. If its wrong, how would I actually write it?