In music, circles­—or Os—denote full, perfect measures; the interjection “O”
or “Oh” was thought to capture the many movements of the soul; the saying “Giotto’s Circle,” existing since the fourteenth century, was coined after
the artist Giotto painted a perfect circle in a single stroke. These sentences
describe just a few of the many uses of the letter O throughout history. This
circular letter comes from the Greek letter O micron, which means “Little O”
and is typically contracted into Omicron today. While the history of the letter is varied, it stands as the only letter which forces a speaker to mimic the
shape of it in their mouth in order to pronounce it.
O
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O
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Garamond
Italic, 150 pt
O
Univers LT Std
Light, 108 pt
o
Zapfino
Regular, 150pt
O
Bodoni STD
Poster, 120 pt
Pflughaupt, L. Letter by Letter: an alphabetic miscellany.
2007. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Sacks, D. Letter Perfect: the marvelous history of our
alphabet from A to Z. 2003. New York: Broadway Books.
Designed by Patrick Puckett
Text
Century Gothic 9/11pt