My animated look at uppercase letters, possible caps-like parallels in otherwise uncapsed writing systems, and how to add uppercase to a script that lacks it.
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~ Briefly ~
Start with a lettercase fairytale, the story of upper and lowercase typography. (Familiar to anyone who caught my old summary of capital letters ~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO6r_Hqi0Ak )
We'll extract three criteria from that story: (1) prominent signs and (2) plain signs are brought together as (3) sign variants in one and the the same system. If your script does this, we'll say you have lettercasing.
That in hand, we'll meet "monocase" scripts that lack prominent letters, alphabets that have them, and then uncapsed parallels that still manage to share some features. Finally, wrap up by revisiting our starting fairytale and turning the first monocase script mentioned in the video into a bicameral one.
~ Credits ~
Art, animation, narration, music and sounds are homemade by me. The sources document linked above gives details and links on the Creative Commons images used, along with page after page of other helpful resources.