Inklang v2

The Square Alphabet, as I have been calling it, is a set of glyphs that contain a lot of right angles and boxes. It's seen frequently in Splatoon 2, and it seems to me to be more associated with the Octarians. Like many of the other "alphabets" I'll be covering, our first clues start in the original Splatoon with Callie and Marie's amiibo performances. The trucks that they dance on flash logos/titles of the songs that they sing; there are different ones for each song. This one starts with the logo for "Ink Me Up", the song that would play during Splatfest battles in the first game. When you load it up through the amiibo, this is what you'll see: (taken from the Tumblr blog Splatoon Script Analysis , because my Wii U is long gone) This logo lines up with the romanized title of the song in Japanese, "kimi iro ni somete" (キミ色に染めて, dye me in your color). These letters each have a consistent equivalent (i.e. the Is are always the same glyph.) (o

I've decided to port over an old blog of mine that I created in 2017, which I used to document my findings about the glyphs present in Splatoon 2. (Of course, those posts are filled with cringe, so I'm rewriting them all to be more clear and concise.)   I hope you guys enjoy!