Kinagrams

First Appearance and Context

Kinagrams are brought into view inside the math during conversations with an artisan in the New Library, where a jacket tag displays a grid of tiny moving images identified as Kinagrams. At a public opening of the gates (Apert), visitors hand out leaves written in Kinagrams; the Avout note that they cannot read them.

Roles/Actions and Affiliations

• Used extramuros for labeling and simple, universal readouts (for example, clothing care tags and official devices that display a named offense).
• Presented by visitors as the successor to earlier pictographic symbols known as Logotype, and contrasted with reading words written in Orth inside the maths.
• Treated outside the walls as an everyday standard for conveying information without Orth text.

Relationships

• Discussed and probed by Fraa Orolo during structured interviews with artisans from outside; his questions explore how Kinagrams compare to Logotype and whether the difference is substantive or conventional.
• Related systems: Orth (written language used in the maths) and Logotype (older, static icons said to be displaced by Kinagrams extramuros).
• Community relationship: avout commonly encounter Kinagrams during controlled contact with visitors and may be unable to read them.

Descriptions/Characteristics

• Appears as small, animated icons arranged in a grid (“tiny moving pictures”).
• Functions as a quick‑interpretation symbol set meant to be understood at a glance.

Current Status/Location

• In prevalent use outside the maths, including on personal items and official readouts.
• Within the maths, Kinagrams are not part of ordinary practice; avout report receiving materials written in Kinagrams during gate openings but not reading them.