So of course I couldn't wait to see what they looked like when they come out the other side of ScanFont and FontLab:
David's new computer font from Tagliente's ornamental capitals: |
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David's new computer font from George Bickham's 1733 swash capitals: |
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and David's new computer font from John De Beau Chesne & John Baildon's Divers sorts of Hands, 1601/2 |
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I'd done a few letters of this one when I first started, here; with ScanFont and FontLab I can do the whole alphabet in the time it took to do half-a-dozen letters with Fontographer.
Two people have already made different computer fonts from Vicentino degli Arrighi's corsivo alphabet:
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Operina
from International
House of Fonts |
Rick sent me a transciption of engraved capitals from King Richard II's tomb in Westminster Abbey, as well as a second alphabet from a 19thC. source, from Alexander Nesbitt's Decorative Alphabets and Initials, which - once I've got the right settings in FontLab - produced a delightful result in a rather short time:
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