[Ansteorra] Recommendations for medieval fonts

[Peter Holland via Ansteorra]

Does anyone know if there is a good font which looks like Roman print?   I
have been looking for a while Svipdagr
On Nov 22, 2014 2:23 PM, "Reis ap Tuder via Ansteorra" <
ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > 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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