Lately, I've been wrestling with upstrokes and down, arcs and curves and dips and swirls.

There's the S where it opens out again, and the extension of the capital A into the nether region. These are the pleasurable struggles, wrestling for the perfect expression of what I already understand.

Then, there's the ugliness of the lower case Q - a letter that has so frequently emerged as squat or listless or dull - even when it isn't being compared to its glamorous capital counterpart. As a letter it has always seemed to be a copout - a flipped P to match the flipped B that is the lower case D.