A pictorial alphabet with “silhouetted characters in the shape of people, animals, sprites, and various sorts of harlequins and demonlike creatures”, made in the 17th or 18th century. [Rakowski] The name of the historical source and the designer is unknown.
Digitized by David Rakowski and released as shareware font named Bizarro in 1992, with proceeds going to Columbia University’s Music Department. Dieter Steffmann added the previously missing ‘W’ in 2000.