Cistercian numerals

From the Arts and Culture Unit

I thought this was kind of cool. This was a number writing system created by a bunch of monks 700 years ago so they could write any number between 1 and 9999 in a single glyph.

Not easy for every day use, but when I'm sitting down to work on a comic it's cool to have stuff like this in the back of my mind and look for ways to add texture and dimension to the world I'm building.

Those bottom numbers are the year I was born and the current year. Then I tried stylizing them a bit to see what that could look like. I might start hiding these in my future comics!

Can you find the hidden zero?

More info on it here: LINK

Speaking of this, did you ever notice I hid a secret message in some of my youtube videos? Here's one of them:

here's another one:

Good luck figuring it out.

-Jake