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Shaw Alphabet Links

Written by Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://luc.devroye.org
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Bob Richmond lists web sites with Shavian fonts (Shaw alphabet fonts). His intro explains why the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw (d. 1950) wanted to create a new alphabet for English and how his trustees held a design contest, which resulted in the adoption of a design by Kingsley Read, a 72-year-old typographer.

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INTERNAL LINKS
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