The English alphabet has consisted of the same 26 letters for centuries. In the twenty-first century, these letters could be considered universal. Still, many letters exist elsewhere in the world. For this assignment, I decided to create a unique letter form for the Filipino letter “ng” and a punctuation mark that represents sarcasm for Helvetica.

To understand the typeface better, I printed the alphabet in Helvetica and traced the letters. I then made notes of what makes Helvetica a unique typeface.

After researching, I began to sketch out different letterforms. I took the base forms of different letters and combined them in different ways.