Soest St Mary
Unusual decorative capitals from embroidery work in a German church. Upper case has a diamond-shaped frame around each letter; lower case is just the letters without the diamond frame; and the ampersand gives just...
font_designer: David Kettlewell
Davids Roundhand
A very harmonic rendering of the classic late-mediaeval round hand, provided here with a choice of two kind of capitals, Lombardic and Round. Usable in all kinds of contexts, both historic and modern.
Chiswick Illuminated Caps
A delightful latter-day reworking of the Lombardic ideal, provided here with the main letter and the background illumination separated so that they can be given different colors on different layers, and given different effects...
Edward’s Uncial 1904
It’s 100 years since Edward Johnston proposed the two mediaeval styles uncial and half-uncial to reintroduce handwriting as an enjoyable experience of beauty – calligraphy. Here his hand-written forms are adapted for print and...
Albrecht Fraktur
In his 1538 book on measurement, Albrecht Dürer gave clear descriptions and drawings about the proportions of the letters in both Roman and ‘fraktur’ alphabets (from Latin ‘fractura’, meaning that it’s broken up with...