

The player controls series protagonist Link as he attempts to save his sister from the sorcerer Ganondorf and becomes embroiled in a struggle for the Triforce, a sacred wish-granting relic. The game is set on a group of islands in a vast sea, a departure for the series. An installment in The Legend of Zelda series, it was released in Japan in December 2002, in North America in March 2003, and in Europe in May 2003. MS Paint and WordPad are two notable programs that don’t, but most others do, including MS Word, LibreOffice Writer, PhotoShop, Affinity Photo, and GIMP to name a few.The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is an action-adventure game developed and published by Nintendo for the GameCube. Get the font here and go to town! Please note that not all programs support text with ligatures.

My version of the font supports katakana input and also uses ligatures to support typing romaji, so you can enter 「ナラガ ハイリアゴカ ワカラナイヨウガナ」 or “naraga hairiagoka wakaranaiyougana” and get the text below: It maps some (but not all) of the characters rather arbitrarily to the English alphabet, which simply does not work well at all for a Japanese-compatible syllabary. The font looks good, but it doesn’t work. I recently got interested in being able to write some stuff in this script, but unfortunately the only font I could find (the so-called “Ancient Hylian” font available on ) was less than ideal for my purposes.

Here is the full script with each character labeled in romaji: Each character represents a single syllable, with the exception of the character for the letter n, the only consonant which can appear at the end of a Japanese word. Specifically, this script is called Modern Hylian and is basically a cipher for Japanese. Perhaps you have wondered if it really says anything? It features prominently throughout the game, written on signs, letters, and maps, and even appearing in speech boxes. If you’ve ever played Link’s cel-shaded seafaring adventure on the GameCube (or its HD remake), you’re no doubt familiar with the writing that is the subject of this post.
