Bonus post

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I'm happy to have a little variety on this 4 day trip through all the red envelopes that are making me cringe every morning. Some envelopes look better after I haven't seen them for a while - others look like *what was she thinking?*

So, on Sunday, there was an anonymous comment left on a very old post. I posted this alphabet and said that I lost the place where it came from - although I think it is that place in the Netherlands. Anyhow, my post said that it needed numbers - and the Sunday commenter asked for lower case as well. 

Cool. Chore avoidance. So, I made the numbers. I also noted that there are only 24 letters. Q is missing, but it would be easy to add a curvy doodad to the O. V is missing - but you could just use half of the W.

The numbers were pretty easy. I will not do any lower case because this is one of those styles that does not lend itself to lower case. It's what we call a *display face* - it is meant to be a word or two - and nothing more. Having said that - if you wanted to do a name with this style and figure out some lowercase letters, you could - and it would hinge on what the letters are. 

I did the name Mary, because Mary had been posting anonymous comments - but then I think she figured out how to put her name in - so if you are the anonymous person who left the comment - let me know and I will do your name in this style --- and show how it either works or does not work with lower case.

Also, I noticed on the original that the M and S were touching and the M had an odd jog in the second stroke. It relates to the R - so maybe they look good together. I like the top M better - without that jog. 

Those curvy appendage serifs are very tricky. 

Here is the image from the original post

It is fun to ponder names. 

For example JEAN would have a big curl on JEA and then nothing on the N.

I think that would be clunky. It might be better to merge the N and M and get something curvy going on the N.

Maybe I should start my January envelopes...... JANET seems like a good name to try - PATTY, not so much. I know from the past that those double-Ts are tricky. 

Let's all use this style on our January envelopes and see what happens...... and by *all* I only mean the people who like geometry.