Shavian

The Shavian 'Proposed British Alphabet' was created in the 1950s by Kingsley Reed as part of a £500 competition financed by a trust set up under George Bernard Shaw's will. Shaw's goal was to both reform spelling and speed writing. The alphabet met the goal but was never adopted.

• Font sizes for the various fonts above were adjusted to make them roughly the same size for the sake of comparison.
• The characters used for the font samples do not necessarily form words but were chosen for visual variety:
  𐑰𐑯𐑳𐑗𐑙𐑞𐑺