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  2. Lombardic capitals - Wikipedia

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    Lombardic capitals is the name given to a type of decorative uppercase letter used in inscriptions and, typically, at the start of a section of text in medieval manuscripts. [1] They are characterized by their rounded forms with thick, curved stems. Paul Shaw describes the style as a "relative" of uncial writing. [2]

  3. Medieval Unicode Font Initiative - Wikipedia

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    Insular G, a shape of the Latin letter G once used in Ireland and Great Britain Insular R. In digital typography, the Medieval Unicode Font Initiative (MUFI) is a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet or in runes, [1] which are not otherwise encoded as part of Unicode.

  4. Trump Mediaeval - Wikipedia

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    Trump Mediaeval (also German Trump Mediäval) is an old-style serif typeface designed by Georg Trump.It was released in 1954 both by the C. E. Weber foundry as metal type and Linotype for hot metal typesetting.

  5. Trajan (typeface) - Wikipedia

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    Trajan is a serif typeface designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. [2] [1]The design is based on the letterforms of capitalis monumentalis or Roman square capitals, as used for the inscription at the base of Trajan's Column, hence the name.

  6. MUFI - Wikipedia

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    Medieval Unicode Font Initiative, a project which aims to coordinate the encoding and display of special characters in medieval texts written in the Latin alphabet, which are not encoded as part of Unicode; Michigan Urban Farming Initiative, an American 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization based in Detroit, Michigan

  7. Tournai font - Wikipedia

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    The font in Winchester Cathedral – the "most famous" of the Tournai fonts in England [14] – illustrates scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Myra on two faces, with three roundels of birds on the third and a roundel of a quadruped with birds on either side on the fourth. [14] It is the only font in the cathedral, and is located in the nave.

  8. History of Western typography - Wikipedia

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    In this copy the decorative colored initials were hand-lettered separately by a scribe. Typography, type-founding, and typeface design began as closely related crafts in mid-15th-century Europe with the introduction of movable type printing at the junction of the medieval era and the Renaissance.

  9. Rotunda (script) - Wikipedia

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    The Unicode letter pair latin capital/small letter r rotunda rendered by different fonts. The r rotunda (ꝛ), "rounded r", is an old letter variant commonly used in rotunda scripts and other blackletter typefaces. It is thought that this variant form of that letter was originally devised either to save space while writing on expensive ...

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