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Shavian (3/3): typographic implementation

Kingsley Read, ‘Androcles and the Lion’ and the final results of the G.B. Shaw’s campaign to replace Latin with a new alphabet — Twelve years after George Bernard Shaw died in 1950, a reader could open a new edition of his play Androcles and the Lion and discover a chimaera. The righthand pages of the book take the expected form: the English language is embodied by a block of the familiar Latin alphabet…

Typeface

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Shavian (3/3): typographic implementation
Shavian (3/3): typographic implementation

Published in CAST

·Jan 23, 2019

Shavian (2/3): the development

How Kingsley Read built a writing system to match George Bernard Shaw’s alphabetic utopia —

Design

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Shavian (2/3): the development
Shavian (2/3): the development

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·Sep 6, 2017

Shavian (1/3): origins

The background of the alphabetic utopia theorised by G.B. Shaw, between spelling and phonetic reform of the English language — By the time that his vision of a new alphabet for the English language had been realised and printed, George Bernard Shaw was dead. A Nobel-winning playwright, critic and polemicist, he spent half a century exasperated by how English was written and campaigning for its reform. It would be twelve…

Design

17 min read

Shavian (1/3): origins
Shavian (1/3): origins
Leo Philp

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MATD ‘14, joint Nobel Peace Prize winner ‘12. Tuits @helloleo

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