“Aunt nell” means “Listen!” In Polari — a (dead) gay-subcultural language from the U.K.. I made this typeface by first designing and constructing a single stencil that would create the entire alphabet by aligning and overlapping shapes taken from iconic representations of sound waves (square/triangle/sawtooth).
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/52caaff9-97b4-47e6-809b-659f24ae658b/3db55d77-6a89-4328-96a4-763f801ba499_rw_1920.jpg?h=cc90d6c97f00457a7878bed32a208063)
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/52caaff9-97b4-47e6-809b-659f24ae658b/d32b64dc-f278-4dd1-b759-0a4126c73e59_rw_1200.jpg?h=92f9b476c000f78d9fa604d79b452a4b)
![](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/52caaff9-97b4-47e6-809b-659f24ae658b/2d1050d0-15a3-480b-96c9-5fd072b3c2fb_rw_1920.jpg?h=90f89fd6ce73416ccbfb24fb26f79f3a)