This from Liron Lavi Turkenich : I will share a bit of the frustration and the fussiness included in the process of designing a specific ...

This, from  Sue Walker : These small-letter ‘g’s are taken from some early twentieth-century handwriting manuals used for teaching pr...

From Hand-Made Type , a typographic experiment Tien-Min Liao, designer based in New York: This is a self-initiated typographic exp...

This, from Juliet Shen, type designer and graphic designer working in Seattle. The small letter gee is close to my heart. It’s endowed wit...

The ‘need for speed’ is one reason for the emergent minuscule letter g from its Trajan parent. The changes in letterforms evolve from a grad...

Here’s an attempt at a standard set of terms to describe the generic small letter g for use in this blog. The terms are applicable to sing...

I need to stop the history stream here, and lay down a few ground rules. Giving names to things is one way of pinning things down, though in...

Perhaps because the letter G was a latecomer to the alphabet — all the other letterforms were firmly fixed by 8BC — the G remained an amorph...

The new G moved into seventh place in the alphabet, displacing the Z, for which there was no need. The Z was later resurrected at the end o...

Our story starts with the Latin g sound and its translation into an alphabetic symbol c7BC. At that time there appears to be no distinction ...

Letters are signs for sounds. Letters are not pictures or representations (…) and tho’ our letters may be shown to be derived form picture ...

This, from Gerard Unger’s Letters , a collection of texts from a newspaper column ‘Letter en Geest’ contributed to an Amsterdam newspaper...

In the early years of the nineteenth century, skilled engravers at the London typefoundry of Louis John Pouchée produced a series of fine...

This is a question I’m asked a lot. The short answer is: it’s the best letter. The long answer? This is going to take a few more posts to ex...