K Letterpress Print Designed by Katharine Wolff
 
"The Good-hearted «K»
Kindred in sound to both C and Q, the good-hearted K
has to fi ght for its market share of English spelling.
Generally our letters are too few: We could use more to
represent sounds like «sh», «th», or the schwa vowel (as in «mentəl»). Yet we extravagantly allocate three letters for
one sound, the unvoiced velar «K».
The big loser in the three-way turf war is Q, nearly
the least used letter in English print. K fares badly too, standing
at about number 22 or 21 in frequency of
use, fourth or fifth to last.
Today C and K rule different sectors of the map of Europe. The
«K languages», favoring K over C in word spellings,
lie mainly in the north and east: They include the Germanic and
some of the Slavic tongues, also Finnish and Hungarian. The
province of C lies generally farther south: Spanish, Portuguese,
French, Italian, and in
the east, Romanian. Among a handful of French K-words,
the most mainstream one is képi, enoting the round,
flat-topped, visored French military and police cap.
The word comes from Swiss German «cap»; even the Swiss
German quotation marks are a sign of Kʼs abstract existence, not
to mention that the letter itself now
thrives in its new global context."
 
This individual unnumbered letterpress print was created for the edition A2Z: Learning Through Lego© and Letterforms by Pedro Neves, Amira Hegazy and Shannon Morrissey.  This edition was printed on a Vandercook Universal I. An extremely limited amount of individual prints are available.
 
Size: 12" x 12"  
 
 
For more information on the project and creation of the A2Z: Learning Through Lego© and Letterforms: https://pedroneves.info/a2z/