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What if 3dimensional letters would exist? But not as a simple extrusion of 2d shape... What if each single letter would have its own characteristic and character, with a mark to show us from which direction we look at it to draw its silhouette while writing.

What if each single letter would carry some information about the sound it represents through its material?

Psychologists demonstrate that children with dyslexia (but also the one without) develop feeling and subconscious emotions for the single letters. Especially towards the most problematic letters (like the b and the d) they start to associate bad feelings, that bring them to skip and reject those letters.

I tried to create three dimensional letters that you can touch and feel also in order to create a 3d image in your head of it.

I divided the letters in 5 groups according to how we pronounce them and assigned to each group a material:

- the vowels: wood

  A E I O U

  are fundamental sounds of our language that’s why they are

  represented by the fundamental geometrical shapes : the cone,

  the parallelepiped, the cylinder, the sphere and the cube.

- the alveolar consonants: metal

  L N R S Z H

  are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior

  alveolar ridge, the sound are sharp and short.

- the dental consonants: ceramic

  T D

  articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth.

- the labial consonants: textile

  F V W P B M

  articulated with the lips are more soft consonants.

- the glottal/palatal: cardboard

  C G K J Q X

  articulated with the body of the tongue raised against the palate.