Journal, glyph page: five glyphs with meaning icons

About this game

Developer: Rundisc · Publisher: Focus Entertainment · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Comic & cartoon · Screen type: Encyclopedia / Codex

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What to study

The same journal after the guesses have hardened into a working vocabulary. Where the objects page (chants-of-sennaar-0) shows empty dotted slots, this spread is full: five big brush-stroke glyphs, and beside each one a small framed circular icon, the meaning the player has pinned to it. The pairing is the whole design in miniature, an unknown sign on one side, a pictogram hypothesis on the other, and the page reads like a personal dictionary because that is literally what it is, written by the player, in the player's order of discovery. One glyph in the middle of the right page is caught glowing, its icon showing a black tooltip that reads 'FIND': the game states meanings in plain words only here, inside the journal's own chrome, never out in the world. Along the top sit four tabs with pictograms, one per people of the tower, the active one gold and pointed like a bookmark; down the right edge runs a rail of ten glyph discs, the palette this language's entries are built from. Sennaar's interface fiction never breaks: the translation tool is a book, the tabs are its dividers, and validation, when it comes, arrives as the book quietly confirming a page. Frame at about 0:46 in the Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer (Steam), pipeline candidate candidates/v0_0023.png at 45.94s. A second frame of the same page about half a second later (manually extracted at 46.5s, held in the workdir) shows the glow moved to the bottom-right glyph with the tooltip 'SEEK/WANT'. No trailer burn-in or watermark is present in the frame.

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

diegetic-document icon-rail

Components

Parts on screen.

Tabs Journal Tooltip

Screen inventory

• five large brush-stroke glyphs across the two pages, each paired with a small framed circular icon, the meaning the player has assigned to it
• the middle-right glyph lit with a white glow, its icon wearing a black tooltip pill that reads 'FIND'
• four tabs along the top of the book, three white and one gold and pointed, the active language, each with a small black pictogram
• at right, a vertical rail of ten white glyph discs in two staggered columns, the same discs the small framed icons on the pages are drawn from
• behind the book, the dimmed game world: a magenta floor with a dotted circular pattern and a railing, paused under the open journal

Top 3 colors

#fbe6d5 33%#000000 32%#62023a 24%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Rundisc / Focus Entertainment, Chants of Sennaar screenshot: Chants of Sennaar - Launch Trailer and Chants of Sennaar - Release Date Reveal Teaser (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Focus Entertainment.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-23. verified 2026-10-23: pipeline candidate frame inspected visually at full resolution (1920x1080); real game UI (journal glyph page: five large brush glyphs, five small framed meaning icons, 'FIND' tooltip pill, four language tabs with the active tab gold, vertical rail of ten glyph discs at right) confirmed visible and legible; no publisher burn-in or watermark in frame

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