July’s alphabet is an evolution of one such birthday card creation, originally devised a few years ago for one of my oldest friends.

Through this project I am learning that the challenge of developing a complete alphabet is very different from just drawing the letters needed for a short message.

Much greater discipline is required in the design of each character, and how they are spaced, if they are to be able to be combined in any possible sequence and still look coherent.

The purpose of this project is to learn more about the discipline of designing fonts, while at the same time retaining the joy I have always derived from devising bespoke lettering for those I care for, lettering that will leave them saying ‘what on earth does that say? is that an ‘h’?’