Deadletters Typewalk with Tanya

Which English letters are no longer with us and who decided that? All these letters, cut into marble or raised on metal, tell us stories of people long gone, some of whom shaped Bombay as a city. We walk inside the St Thomas's cathedral looking at the letters that inhabit the building. Letters over graves and memorials placed by people who wanted them remembered in a place of prestige. We also look at how the English language has evolved over the centuries affecting languages and scripts. We examine who made those letters and how they look the way they do.

Tanya George is an independent typographer, type designer, and design educator based in Bombay. She pursues a wide-ranging independent practice that includes artistic pursuits anchored in letterforms as well as designing letters for brand identities as well as fonts across different Indian Scripts. She also conducts TypeWalks around Mumbai, along with typography workshops, and writes about type. She is a docent and India correspondent for the Letterform Archive.