we’re fixing capital “T”

And we are going to fix that.

Let’s take this quote in Director’s Gothic 250.

Abraham Eraly quoting the Persian poet Saadi, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate by Persian poet Saadi, captured by Abraham Eraly in “The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate”

Let’s zoom into the first letters.

All the other letters with an upright bar align well.^*

Abraham Eraly quoting the Persian poet Saadi, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate

Except that ruffian T.

Designers have started to deal with this stubbornness of T in their own ways.

The Federation logo Mental Health Coalition banner The Federation and Mental Health Coalition (by Pentagram)

In these examples, Pentagram lets the horizontal bar of 'T' hang a little bit like punctuation to align the vertical bar with those from other letters by adding a little bit of outdent.

But we need a more radical solution for this.

Presenting….the new and improved capital letter T.

redesigned letter T with the horizontal bar extending only on one side.

No more misaligned letters, no more manually outdenting your text to achieve a more harmonious block of text.

Abraham Eraly quoting the Persian poet Saadi, The Age of Wrath: A History of the Delhi Sultanate with updated T

Redesigned Mental Health Coalition banner with updated T

There, you have it. You can name this new letter after me. Or not. I have never been one for fame.

^*Y - you are next.

Fin.