A growing compendium of all Deseret Alphabet glyph shapes linked to their historical sources
Select a glyph, filter its historical source columns, open the extracted PNG crop, and compare forms side by side. The embedded catalog is generated from the current research workbook and joins glyph, specimen, and source metadata.
Dataset scope: Currently, these are crops from modern vowel and consonant comparison matrices (derived from original sources), not direct crops from the original witnesses.
Historical head names:
For historical accuracy, project-facing head names conform to
Deseret News publications beginning in 1859, except
mule and
choice, which were not included in that printing.
See the Orson Pratt Key for names and their assignment
to letters in documents using different conventions. These historical head names
sometimes differ from the official Unicode character names, which remain displayed.
For example, the fleece vowel is headed
Long E, while its official Unicode name is
DESERET CAPITAL LETTER LONG I.