ShavianBernard Shaw died on 2 November 1950, and his will contained provisions for a new proposed alphabet, a subject that always held his interest. The proposed alphabet should be a more efficient alphabet of at least forty, rather than 26, letters so that no one sound would have to be written with groups of letters of diacritical marks. Well the long or short version, Mr. Kingsley Read won a contest of proposed alphabets and I created a typeface of it for Macintosh and Windows. The scrip also has the benefit of being a third more compressed and faster to write than the normal Roman alphabet (and, it has a not so obvious use as a personal encryption/privacy tool). I made two fonts that will aid in printing and cross-platform communication using Shavian. I give credit to Bob Richmond, the hundreds of people hitting my Shavian info page, and the wonderful eMails, for keeping me interested in Shavian. I have been using this system to write english, on and off since I discovered it, and it is fairly easy to learn, if you just give it some time. Hope you have some fun with this.
DeMeyere Design
fonts for Macintoshfonts for windowsdocumentation as a PDF file

By Ross DeMeyere on 2002-03-01 18:48