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The Bold Alphabet (WIP)

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The Bold Alphabet is an alphabet that is very... well, bold. It's quite easy to tell it apart from other alphabets, in that it looks like the Inkling version of the main font in the original Splatoon.  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 "Bomb Rush Blush", Callie's solo song from the first game. When you load it up through her amiibo, this is what you'll see: From Splatoon Script Analysis, http://splatoon-scripts.tumblr.com/ This logo lines up with the romanized title of the song in Japanese, "tokimeki bomb rush" (トキメキ☆ボムラッシュ, pit-a-pat ☆ bomb rush), with the katakana loanwords in their original English spelling. These letters each have a consistent equivalent (i.e. the Ks are alw