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Posted by core in
4 Oct 2004 — 4:21am
4 Oct 2004 — 4:21am
i need your help.
fonts from the 12th century (approx.)
needed for
1) inscription in stone & steel (europe)
2) calligraphy on paper
i know that the printed word did not come until later, but still.
show me what you got!
kind regards
martin
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5 Oct 2004 — 1:35am
5 Oct 2004 — 1:37am
hej martin,
not sure if you'll find what you're looking for there, but try searching Dieter Steffmann's archive, plenty of old fonts there.
http://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/steffmann/index.htm
good luck!
5 Oct 2004 — 1:44am
that little lot is from the fence around the local catherdral, here in Newcastle upon Tyne. I have no idea how long the fence has been there, but when I took a shortcut a few weeks ago I cam across it and felt I had to go back and get some pictures.
The best story about the catherdral from me, is that during the English / Scottish border wars, the Scottish had the city surrounded and started to bombard the city. So the English sent a message out to the Scottish army, that the Scottish prisoners had been put in the tower of the catherdral, so the catherdral survived the seige.
Jim
6 Oct 2004 — 3:17am
pretty wild stuff...
check out this letter - is there a font to match?