David's own fonts - Illuminated capitals
Sapphire
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This one worked so nicely that I did the whole alphabet, and even some bits and pieces ...
It's much more the kind of thing I've been doing for years, the meeting point between mediaeval manuscripts, renaissance wall-painting and baroque farmers' art - here.
Of course the embossed 'jewels' can't be built in to the font, but in Photoshop it's only five simple steps to render the type
(= convert to pixels, also called 'rasterise' )separate the inner shapes, put them them on their own layer, and then apply embossing or whatever ...
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A few more steps are involved here, to get the gradient background, the different-coloured jewels and the marzipan effect, but it's still only a few minutes work.
There's more of this kind of thing on my other Fontografia sites
here and
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