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I just learned the first 7 letters in braille. That was fun!

#braille #alphabets

Illustration by Jan Christian Bierpfaff, Jeremias Falck, from Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum (ca. 1645-50).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/ca167e11-aa92-4cbb-b70f-57584fae9951

#alphabets #grotesques #decorative #letters #botanical #typography #design #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/f07a6433-6f65-4717-8674-91f30478f765

#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jan Christian Bierpfaff, Jeremias Falck, from Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum (ca. 1645-50).

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1bf171b8-8fab-435d-bc4c-752b512a308c

#alphabets #grotesques #decorative #letters #botanical #typography #design #art #publicdomain

What are the most useful #alphabets for world #travel? My thoughts (please join the discussion!):

https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002806.html

Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/18e537fe-b069-459b-bd00-5aabf09f6877

#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

Goodness gracious me, it's actually a real book, with an introductory essay from the wonderful Morgane Côme.

This one from @letterformarchive looks spectacular and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres-decoratives/

PS. Some of this stuff appeared in a small segment in BLAG 02 (https://bl.ag/02) but this book is next level.

#SignPainting #SignPainters #Enseignes #Signwriters #Signwriting #France #Alphabets

Graphic of a spread from a book with a column of text on the right and a black and white landscape image sitting across the fold. The image shows a school/workshop setting with multiple people painting large signs.

Announcing
Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets

Our latest book takes an immersive look inside the large lithographic portfolios that inspired public lettering in Belle Époque France. With in-depth research from sign painter Morgane Côme and dozens of rare alphabet plates, it’s an essential reference and delightful guide to the fashionable letterforms that defined the classic French streetscape.

#SignPainting #Alphabets #Lettering #ad

https://letterformarchive.org/shop/lettres-decoratives/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Lettres_Announcement

@gutenberg_org regroups some treasures, such as this list of books of alphabets, lettering, contouring or shaping. Stunning!

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=alphabets

#projectgutenberg #typography #typogeek #alphabets

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39398

A system of easy lettering by John Howard Cromwell

@papers@soc.octade.net

Hexlish Alphabet for English, Constructed Languages and Cryptography: Automatic, Structural Compression with a Phonetic Hexadecimal Alphabet

DOI : https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13139469

Hexlish is a legible, sixteen-letter alphabet for writing the English language and for encoding text as legible base 16 or compressed binary. Texts composed using the alphabet are automatically compressed by exactly fifty percent when converted from Hexlish characters into binary characters. Although technically lossy, this syntactic compression enables recovery of the correct English letters via syntactic reconstruction. The implementer can predict the size of the compressed binary file and the size of the text that will result from decompression. Generally it is intuitive to recognize English alphabet analogues to Hexlish words. This makes Hexlish a legible alternative to the standard hexadecimal alphabet.

#Hexlish #Conlang #Alphabets #English #Hexadecimal #Encoding #Cryptography #Ciphers #Crypto #Encryption #Compression #Papers #Preprints #Orthography #Language #Linguistics #Writing #Glyphs #Alphabetology #Technology

Die Erfindung des #NATO-#Alphabets

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UAT-eOzeY4M&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv

#hamradio #funk #Amateurfunk #wissenschaft #forschung #sprache

Illustration by Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre, from Alphabet-album; collection de soixante feuilles d'alphabets historiés et fleuronnés, tirés des principales bibliothèques de l'Europe (1843).

Source: Boston Public Library / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/b38d951e-8b88-42c1-b76c-6e23ad591f2b

#type #alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #fonts #art #publicdomain

Page from Joseph-Balthazar Sylvestre’s Alphabet Album

Thanks to everyone that came to #Alphabetum on Saturday to see Writing Systems of the Otherworld in collaboration with Tim Brookes @Endangeredalphabets.

We see @letterror, @typearture and @AleksandraSamulenkova reading and discussing dream stories that lead to the creation of these #alphabets, #syllabics or #idiographic languages.
Also present, but not in the pictures; @MatthijsSluiter, @underware, @typotheque and @TypeMedia student & alumni and non-Mastodonians.

0.5 image of the beautiful library from the former American Embassy in The Hague that now is the location of WEST and its sub gallery space Alphabetum, run by Akiem Halmling. The library on the balcony is a separate inherited library of an Artis that mostly contains art books. Below are the books that are part of the public collection of the Alphabetum, now surrounded by the exhibition built from translucent flags, text- and glyphs-panels.

Erik van Blokland behind the curtain for Leke looking at the chart of the Mandaic script.

Aleksandra Samulenkova and Artur Reinders Folmer having (as I’ve been told) philosophical discussions on writing and where writing systems originate from.

A couple looking at the framed poster/map called Writing Systems of the Otherworld. Pointing at the Mandobe script, that was inspired by the mortar between bricks, that builds a grid the script is based upon.

Illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall, from The Cubies’ ABC (1913).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/70fc093e-807a-408f-a27c-b301aaf2eb03

#easels #alphabets #painting #sitting #smoking #modernism #cubism #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Earl Harvey Lyall, from The Cubies’ ABC (1913).

Source: The Getty / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/12bb5946-bb06-49c4-b9dc-dca391c1f898

#easels #alphabets #painting #portraiture #modernism #cubism #art #publicdomain

Letter X from <i>Dream Alphabet</i> (1683) by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, from Alfabeto in sogno
.

Source: @gettymuseum@mastodon.social / Internet Archive

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/77555f0a-90da-4fb4-9256-14250e618fbe

#alphabets #typography #twins #design #fonts #art #publicdomain

Pages from Alfabeto in sogno (1683) by Giuseppe Maria Mitelli. The title translating as Dream Alphabet

How Archaeologists Uncovered the World’s First Alphabet | Human | BBC Earth Science - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGvNs1xOfmA

#History #Languages #Alphabets

Illustration by Paul Franck, from The Proper Art of Writing (1655).

Source: @gettymuseum@mastodon.social / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bcd9623d-12c1-41e0-991b-c5f6cff66f0f

#alphabets #letters #calligraphy #typography #orthography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

Hangul "is not the only [writing system that we know and can trace who exactly created it]. We know exactly who created the Cherokee and the Cree-Inuk syllabaries. There are also several new scripts in parts of Africa and elsewhere who’s creators are still alive among us, e.g., Herman ‘Mogri’ Mongrain Lookout for the Osage alphabet."
#TIL #alphabets #linguistics
https://xcancel.com/avzaagzonunaada/status/1907497588074672518
https://www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/news/osage-nation-master-language-teacher-herman-mongrain-lookout-receives-k-state

#Alphabets

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