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The Desdemona Alphabet

Desdemona

Every letter and numeral here is a pictograph with a story in it. Glen Kealey read them, and the decoding is where the rest of his work starts. Open any letter for the original page.

The Desdemona typeface is to tell you what the plan is

Moho-discontinuity, 2009
Reduced motion is on, so this is a settled frame.

Start by acquiring copies of Freemasonry's secret Encyclopedias. Read them through and through.

WHAT IS MASONRY ?, December 2, 2009

The Letters

A–Z · 26 glyphs

The Numerals

0–9 · 10 glyphs

Working sketches

Working sheets: the glyphs copied out by hand and annotated as he read them.

Glen Kealey's hand-drawn working sheet of Desdemona letters, annotated
Glen Kealey's hand-drawn notes working through the Desdemona "@" glyph

Specimen sheets

Reference sheets and the themed page, on the preserved 2002 site.