I contributed to Karen To’s Dead Words project recently. I was asked to typographically illustrate the  term “ebaptization” – a retired word declaring that someone has not been properly baptized from 1659.

Within, I used Queen Mary’s secret cipher to spell out the word – the language of a woman who changed a church, and in a sense, both de- and un-baptize it.

A dead word rendered in a dead language.

We released a new typeface this week – SketchCaslon Italic – a hand-rendered display typeface with its formal base in the structure of the types of William Caslon.

One can obtain SketchCaslon Italic from MyFonts and YouWorkForThem.