Alphabet 26 is Bradbury Thompson’s radical proposal for the redesign of the alphabet. We present excerpts from an essay that he wrote to accompany a printed piece that he planned to have published at the beginning of 1996. Brad Thompson died before its completion.

Much of the material here first appeared in Thompson’s The Art of Graphic Design (Yale). The text has been edited for presentation here.

Paul Baker, with feedback from Thompson, has produced the new digital version of Alphabet 26 which is used in this presentation.