My first memory of the Deseret Alphabet was somewhere back in 2014 / 2015, at Southern Utah University. I was busy in my senior year, preparing a thesis of sorts, but I made a mental note to look into it later. It took a couple of years, but I finally did.
And I kinda got obsessed.

I don't know exactly what did it for me, but I love alphabets. I love knowing there's a string of markings you can arrange and rearrange and some people will know what it means, and others will not.
I also love that my adopted ancestors took it upon themselves to develop their own alphabet. Among the countless other tasks that go into establishing a colony, they chose also to make the tools of language. They did this with whatever knowledge they could cobble together on the subject (lingustics likely isn't high on the food chain of life skills for the frontier), and I embrace their results wholeheartedly. What I see in it is the earliest budding of a young culture fighting to separate and take root.

I also see room for improvement, both as a designer and a user of the alphabet. So over that glorious week between Christmas and New Years, where there are no deadlines, I spent some time building out these letterforms in both Latin and Deseret. You can call this a revival font, but that'd be missing the point— which is to explore how the Deseret Alphabet looks when it is adapted to various type traditions.

I've got a few other styles in the works, but thought it would be fun to release something for the 24th of July, rather than leaving it forgotten on my hard drive forever. You can head over to my website, or join my mailing list through the link below to download it. It's still very much work-in-progress, but if you end up using it on anything cool I'd love to hear about it.