Before you translate your words into hieroglyphs, break them down into their basic sounds of their syllables. For example, the word hieroglyph itself has ten letters but only eight sounds: h-i-r-o-g-l-y-f. Therefore, you would only need eight hieroglyphs to represent it.

Treat all double letters as single sounds. That should help you cut back on the number of hieroglyphs you need to use.

Sometimes the same hieroglyph is used to represent different letters. If that happens, change the colour of the hieroglyphs to avoid confusion.

Arrange your hieroglyphs to create interesting designs rather than the straight lines that we use to arrange our letters and sentences.