[Ansteorra] Recommendations for medieval fonts

[Stefan li Rous via Ansteorra]

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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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          StefanliRous at gmail.com
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