French pen maker BIC analysed 868,227 characters from 111 countries to create an average typeface alphabet. It can be explored by gender, age and country (pictured).

Anti's Hamar office has produced a custom font called Optician Sans by adding to the ten letters used in historic optotype eye test charts.

Graphic designer Erik Freer sings the body electric in an alphabet of naked men--a tribute to Whitman, who worked in a very different era.

Exploring the limits of type design, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has developed Braille Neue, an attempt to combine Braille with the English and Japanese alphabets. This is no easy feat ...