This article reports the outcome of a publicly funded research project titled "Redesign of the British Sign Language (BSL) Notation System with a New Font for Use in ICT," which ran from September 2000 to December 2001. The aim of the project was to redesign the British Sign Language variant of Stokoe notation (as used in the BSL/English Dictionary) for practical use in information technology systems and software, such as lexical databases, word-processing packages, and teaching and learning applications. The project�s objectives tackled design issues, not sign linguistic system-level problems. The project resulted in two new type designs for writing BSL Stokoe, united into a larger type family called William C., in memory of William C. Stokoe. I anticipate that the new type design proposals will make the provision of searchable BSL Stokoe notation in database designs a possible next step in lexicographic and other sign linguistic research projects.