Graphic Arts Collection (GAX) Oversize ND237.R19 A46 1970f Man Ray painted his first letter “Y” in 1923 as an homage to his friend Yves Tanguy. Even earlier, he contemplated creating an alphabet of ...

The first Google Earth 'alphabet', featuring all 26 letters, has been created from satellite images of natural features and buildings by Rhett Dashwood, a graphic designer from Australia.

The taller the letter, the more we use it. Throw all the letters together, and they form a real, live alphabet city–a skyline of towering “e”s and low-rise “d”s and blind-alley “x”s.