Runes might perhaps be cooler, but _this_ represents my culture.

At my company's hack week in Cologne last summer, I saw someone wearing a T-shirt with runes on it. Cool, I thought, and briefly considered the possibility of wearing one myself before concluding it would not be reflective of my culture: none of my ancestors were rune-carving Germanics fifteen hundred years ago.

This led to a contemplation of what the equivalent would be for me. The Palaeo-Hebrew alphabet,^* I concluded, and posted about it on Facebook, concluding "I can feel a T-shirt coming on."

* The alphabet the Jews used before the Babylonian exile, where they picked up the Assyrian one they still use today.

Several months down the line, here's the result:

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Now roll on my next T-shirt, for which I already have the idea...