[Ansteorra] Recommendations for medieval fonts

[Andreas von Meißen via Ansteorra]

I use a few of Pia Frauss' fonts. Some are more historical than others, but
a few are very nice.
http://www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/fonts.htm

-- Andreas

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 1:16 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.
>
> 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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