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Period Fonts

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Just an annotated list of the various sources for SCA Period computer fonts I have found

  • KPS  - A fantastic collection of 70 fonts, many based on specific historic exemplars, created by Klaus-Peter Schäffel. They often include automatic OpenType ligatures and alternates (tall vs. short 's' for example).
  • GoticoAntiqua - A symposium held in April 2019 on 15th C hybrid typefaces existing between Gothic and Roman.  It includes video of all the presentations and images of the source manuscripts as well as samples of the fonts developed as part of it.
  • Peter Barker's Fonts - Several GitHub repositories, some containing very carefully done period fonts and others with fonts more useful for transribing period manuscripts, with abbreviations and flying letter glyphs. The period ones are BeowulfOne, Cissanthemos, Eadui, ParkerChronicle, and Joscelyn.  The last is perhaps the most interesting, there are plenty of Old English fonts, but few that try to reproduce the flow and structure of Elizabethean Secretary, which is the aim of this hand.

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