[Ansteorra] Recommendations for medieval fonts

[Reis ap Tuder via Ansteorra]

I primarily use two fonts for headers in the Black Star (I use an
explicitly modern font for the content text, for readability reasons); one
is based on a medieval hand and one is more of "medieval-ish" work from a
19th century artist.  The former is Magna Carta (you can probably guess
what document was studied for the hand) and is, frankly, pretty rough for
reading to modern eyes, at least mine, and the latter is Kelmscott, which
is pretty nice but, as I say, appears to be based on artwork by the founder
of Kelmscott Press, William Morris, 19th century English designer.

For what it's worth,

Reis
Kingdom Chronicler

On Sat Nov 22 2014 at 1:16:15 AM Stefan li Rous via Ansteorra <
ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> I’ve been looking at a number of medieval fonts online. Some are fantasy
> or are just medievally-influenced, to put it politely. Some are likely more
> accurate, but I am not a scribe and haven’t studied scribal hands or early
> printing.
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> Does anyone have recommendations on, preferably free, fonts that are good
> for medieval flyers and such? It would also be nice if the fonts are
> readable. Even some of the actual medieval fonts are not very readable, but
> adding spaces and modern punctuation does help.
>
> I’m not sure it matters these days, but I do most of my work on Macs under
> OS X.
>
> Thanks,
>    Stefan
>
> PS: For event flyers, please, please use clear, readable fonts for things
> like event times and directions over fonts that may be more medieval but
> are hard to read. Using those is as bad as just using “Same place as last
> year”. Argh.
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