The SOUND TO GAZE (凝音成書) project is a typography project where characters have been designed to represent Hong Kong Cantonese verbal sayings that do not have formal written form.

This project was inspired by my interest in the use of onomatopoeic devices in Hong Kong comics. During my visual research, I found that Chinese characters are not easily expressed in onomatopoeic form. This is because Chinese characters are typically logograms. Unlike in English, where words can be spoken from the sounds represented by standardised letters, in Chinese, words are highly stylized and simplified pictures of real-world material objects.

That is why I created「 凝音字」, a set of characters that combine the Chinese equivalent of English initials and finals into a set of phonogram characters that represent verbal sounds.

「 凝音字 」expands the Cantonese language by adding a purely phonetic range of Cantonese characters that express verbal sounds. This was done in the hope of providing more options for graphic creation in Hong Kong.

凝音成書是一個計劃去為香港粵語創作一套用於聲音表達的字符。這個名字的意思是將聲音凝聚並寫成文字，令本來看不見的聲音儲存在文字並於靜態的平面中表現出來。

這個計劃的起因是由於我對香港漫畫中的擬聲詞應用感到興趣而啟發出來的。在分析過後，我認為漢字在擬聲的表達上有不少難點，所以我希望創作一套純粹以表達聲音為目的的中性字符：凝音字。

凝音字是作為粵語的擴充字為定位，補充漢字於粵音擬聲方面的表達而創作，設計上由漢字的形狀和筆順作為視覺上的參考，再透過形變來創作出能與漢字整體上配合，讓凝音字能夠作為一個粵語造字的分支，希望令香港平面創作有更多的文字選擇。