80: Bookshelf

This alphabet, Bookshelf, makes the letters using simple rectangular strokes.  A distant relative of Gothic, with its line-up of parallel verticals, it works best in logos where the reader has some clue to the nearly abstract word.  

Vertical strokes resemble the spines of books on a shelf; standing up, leaning, or piled in stacks.

79: Endless

This Endless alphabet challenges the calligrapher to make each swashed letter with one uninterrupted stroke.  You will probably come up with a few of your own.  

These letters look best one or two at a time.

78: Fleur de Lys

Fleur de Lys offers one more example of the all around utility of basic Roman letter forms.  This alphabet adds the suggestion of an iris with a few simple strokes.  

Choose a few letters, and add the strokes with precision.  

Preview of tomorrow's alphabet.  

60: Runes

The coils of rounded Celtic letters co-existed with archaic squared-off Runes.  The Book of Kells offers hundreds of different forms.  Here are just a few.

77: Papyrus Caps

These simple Papyrus caps have a distinctive shape that makes them decorative and useful.  Use a Speedball D pen nib, which reduces the contrast between thin and thick strokes to about 2/3.  

Derived from a popular typeface.

76: Ronde lc

These letters were especially popular in French book design.  They are graceful and rounded, and are usually called Ronde, lowercase.

75: ^!$cell@ne0u$

April Fool!  Each of the letters in this alphabet is actually something else, made readable by your determination to see letters.  You just THINK it's an alphabet.  

Have fun surprising people.