[Sw-l] Lessons in SignWriting — Interactive Edition

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
June 22, 2026

Hello Amit!
Thank you for this wonderful gift. And thank you Adam for all the work you have done on this book. And thanks to Lucinda and Kevin as well. 

This is an exciting new development!

Val 😊
Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 22, 2026, at 4:52 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> When I first started learning SignWriting, I came across the Lessons in SignWriting book. It is a wonderful resource, but as a beginner—and without any background in ASL at the time—I struggled to fully understand it.
> 
> The book could show me SignWriting, but I wanted to see the pages come alive. I wanted to see people signing, understand how the written forms corresponded to real movement, and explore the symbols interactively.
> 
> Over the past few months, I have been working on a new version of the book, which I call the Interactive Edition. It aims to remain mostly faithful to the original material while adding interactive elements:
> 
> Hover over most signs to watch Adam sign them.
> Hover over handshapes to see the corresponding real hand.
> Hover over many other SignWriting symbols to view example videos.
> Use the 3D viewer to understand how movement arrows represent motion in three dimensions.
> Practice reading, and writing, with games sprinkled throughout.
> You can explore it here:
> https://research.sign.mt/lessons-in-signwriting/
> 
> I made a walkthrough video explaining it https://supercut.ai/share/rylo/7F83XmIEOSlxO5Rw5kdeRH 
> 
> I hope you find it a useful extension of the original material. The project is open source and available here: https://github.com/sign-language-processing/lessons-in-signwriting Contributions, corrections, and suggestions are very welcome. The goal is to create a resource that clearly presents the full system and is useful to both new learners and experienced SignWriting users.
> 
> As always, this work would not have been possible without the previous work, and contributions of many people—especially Valerie, Adam, Steve, Lucinda, and Kevin.
> 
> Best,
> Amit
> 
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