Black line-art flash sheet of a geometric alphabet, A to Z, set in a grid of letters built from circles, diamonds, arrows and parallel lines.

Geometric line alphabet flash sheet

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The sheet shows twenty-six capital letters, A to Z, arranged in rows of three on a white background. Each letter is drawn with uniform black strokes of even weight, combining straight lines, circles, diamonds, arrowheads and small repeated motifs. The composition is flat and evenly spaced, with no shading or colour.

Lettering Geometric Alphabet Letter Geometric Line Circle Diamond Arrow Symbol

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The rain had been on the stalls since Tuesday, and Hannah Pyle still had nineteen letters to cut before the wool fair opened. Her father had cut the market signs for sixty years, every word in plain block capitals, and every autumn the carters argued over which corner belonged to whom. So she was cutting a new alphabet instead, one the rain could not blur. Each letter had to close with a circle, so a carter could find a stall by its shape before he troubled to read it.

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She worked by a lamp that smelled of tallow and wet wool. The A came easily, a peak of crossed lines with a ring on top like a bell. The diamonds gave her trouble. Diamonds stacked along a bar meant cloth, diamonds bent along a curve meant a dye vat, and she had to keep these straight in her head without writing them down. Her father had always said that a sign is a promise made in a hurry, so it must be drawn slowly.

On the last night a stranger came in out of the wet, shaking his hat over the floorboards, and asked for a Z. She had not cut one yet. She found she could make one from the arrows, two strokes doubled back on themselves with a small ring at the foot, and the stranger ran his thumb along the grooves and said it was the first letter anyone had ever drawn for him that pointed the way home. He paid in coppers and left the door open behind him, and the rain came in across the sawdust, and she let it.