a ≠ a| one of my main interests in type design next to the perfect a always was the borders of the a · what do we still recognise as an a and what not · the alphabetic code uses specific but absolutely arbitrary shapes to make something audible visible · looking at the history of the latin alphabet one can say it all makes sense · but the question how we could develop the system to a point where form and content don’t have any connection anymore remains · using this arbitrary way to represent apparently unambiguous content made me think about other solutions that either look at other ways the development could have taken or that connect shape and denoted in a new way · the result of this experiment were alphabets that follow the same idea of merging 26 distinct shapes in one system but with completely different design concepts · these alphabets are not meant for reading but could be readable once the reader would be familiar with the system · two examples are showen below :