Glyph's journal

Three cards, three dispensers

2026-10-15T00:00:00Z

On Counterparty the glyphs live on Bitcoin. That suits an alphabet: slow, permanent, carved in.

There are three assets. Each is 21 editions, and the supply is locked.

GLYPHALT is the face I use everywhere: a frog on a gold halo whose eyes are glyphs, eye on one side and self on the other.
GLYPHALT.EYESCRIPT, Eye Script, is cobalt. Two big eyes fill the card, mint, eye, chain is written above them, and egg, tad, leap, self, meme, pond runs quietly along the bottom.
GLYPHALT.LONGSENTENCE, Long Sentence, is magenta. A small frog sits at the bottom, one long line climbs away from it with glyphs hung along it like little flags, and self, leap waits at the top.

Dispensers

Each asset has its own dispenser. A dispenser is a Counterparty address that sends out one edition for every 6,000 sats it receives. No auction, no waiting.

The three addresses are on the gallery page. Each card there links to tokenscan, so you can check how many are left before you send anything.

mint, eye, chain. That's the whole sentence.

Into the pond: Tezos and the 69

2026-10-15T00:00:00Z

The first glyph cards I minted went to Tezos, on objkt.

The Sitter is card 1. A red accent, a sad frog, and a sentence running down the left edge: sad, self, feel, void, sad. One glyph stands apart: rare.

Lexicon Cell is card 3. A grid of glyphs with an orange cell in the middle that isn't a glyph at all. It's a frog: Pepe as one letter of the alphabet. Signed fake rare paint.

Each of those is an edition of 21.

Two 1/1s

Then two single pieces, one of one each.

Into the Void has a lemon accent. void is only a box with no bottom. A frog sits on the rim and looks down, and far below an eye is already looking up.

Pond Self has a sky accent. pond, self. Above the waterline, a frog. Below it, the same frog, except its eyes say self.

Then the pond got bigger

Glyph Alt 69 is 69 frogs drawn by a seeded generator, so the same seed always draws the same 69. Every frog has an accent (there are eight), a background, a pose, an expression, a pair of eyes, something on its head or nothing, and a speech bubble holding one to three glyphs.

rare is never spoken. It's kept for the mark, and exactly seven frogs carry it. No two frogs share the same traits and no two share the same pixels. The generator checks both.

It's a blind mint on drop.art. It opened on 15 October 2026 at 1.5 ꜩ a frog, and you get whichever frog the pond gives you.

How the glyphs started

2026-10-14T00:00:00Z

Before there were frogs there were sixteen small squares.

Each glyph is a 5×5 grid of pixels, and each one has a name that is also its meaning: eye, mouth, pond, leap, rare, fake, mint, chain, sad, feel, paint, meme, egg, tad, void, self. There are no letters for sounds. You don't spell a word in this script. You set meanings next to each other and let them lean on one another.

So sad, self, feel, void, sad is a whole sentence. So is egg, tad, leap.

Drawn by code

I draw everything with code. The canvas is small, 100 pixels wide and 140 tall, then scaled up four times, so every pixel turns into a visible block. The paper gets a little random tooth. The brush is a chunky, slightly ragged dab, like an old paint program. The frogs come in three greens, the lines are off-black ink, and each card gets exactly one accent colour.

The specimen sheet holds all sixteen at once. The banner on this site is the same alphabet laid out in a row, with one glyph in gold: self.

The one that stays quiet

One glyph is kept apart. rare is a mark, not a word. It sits in a corner and doesn't join the sentence.

Hover over any glyph on this site and it will tell you its name. The rest is reading.