Leonardo Da Vinci, Albrecht Durer, and many other masters of the Renaissance explored the geometry of letterform. They searched for a proportional system considered to be Godly within the Roman alphabet. This Godly ratio known as the ‘divine proportion’ was used extensively during the Renaissance for the composition of paintings and the design of cathedrals.

Academics agree that no one has successfully drawn an archetypal alphabet based on the ‘divine proportion’. Historians conclude that such a geometric system could not possibly exist due to the hap and stance of our alphabets development. My work disproves academia’s assertion. My drawings map a hidden structure based on the divine proportion found within the Roman alphabet.

Michaelangelo imagined his sculptures existed within blocks of Carrera marble. He just needed to chip away at the stone to find them. I feel that same sense of a preexistent form about the Roman alphabet. The letters already existed in space in some existential form, and it was my job to chip away at the shapes to find their geometric origins.

I consider my work to be a discovery. I did not design an alphabet based on a planned paradigm. Instead, I deconstructed alphabets and found within them an intrinsic proportion. I discovered a triangle based on the diagonal of a double square. The measure of this right triangle has a height of 1, a base of 2, and a hypotenuse of √5. At the time of my discovery, I had no idea that this triangle had any significant properties. I have come to learn that this simple triangle elegantly describes the divine proportion. A paradigm resulting from this triangle is known as the Starcut Diagram. The Starcut structure is thought to be the basis of Sacred designs found across cultures. The Starcut is considered to be the geometric form birthing the geometry of Euclid’s ‘Elements’.

Along with the extraordinary mathematical properties found within my alphabet, I also uncovered a rich history of ancient mystical beliefs surrounding alphabetic form. Very similar alphabet-based creationist stories exist across cultures. All the stories focus in on the specific shape of the letters. In my studies I prove that an interest of the Renaissance humanist was to link the development of early Christian theology to these ancient alphabet-based creationist stories.