Uppercase “N” Is Where Type Designers Quietly Settle Their Hardest Argument

16/09/2026

Capital “N” looks like a solved problem: two vertical stems, one diagonal connecting them, done. But hidden inside that simple...

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Uppercase “M” Started as a Symbol for Water and Somehow Still Looks Like It

15/09/2026

We touched on this briefly with lowercase “m” earlier in this series, but the capital version makes the connection even...

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Uppercase “K” Was So Rare in Latin That Romans Basically Forgot How to Use It

26/08/2026

We touched on this from the lowercase side earlier in this series, but the capital story deserves its own moment:...

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Uppercase “J” Wasn’t a Real Letter Until After Shakespeare Was Already Dead

25/08/2026

We covered this from the lowercase side earlier in this series, but the capital version of the story is even...

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Uppercase “I” Used to Be Two Letters at Once — and Neither of Them Had a Dot

24/08/2026

We’ve already covered how lowercase “i” got its dot centuries after the letter itself existed, and how “j” split off...

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Uppercase “H” Used to Sound Like Clearing Your Throat

21/08/2026

Most letters drift a little in pronunciation over the centuries. “H” went through something closer to a total identity crisis,...

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