alphabet archives

posted by foster on Thursday, May 01, 2008

I was exploring the Mac OS X Character Palette again this morning and noticed something I hadn’t seen before. If you choose “View: All Characters” and then “Miscellaneous Scripts,” You’ll find the Deseret Alphabet. For the uninitiated, this was a phonetic alphabet created by the early saints to help immigrants in their move to English. It ships with Mac OS X by default!

posted by foster on Sunday, Apr 08, 2007

Beautiful font here plus a cool concept: “The plan for simplifying and improving our alphabet, entitled “Alphabet 26 was first presented in Westvaco Inspirations 180 in 1950. It recommended the use of only one symbol for each of the 26 letters.”
(via SVN)

posted by jason on Wednesday, Feb 28, 2007