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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.
Anglo-Saxon runes or Anglo-Frisian runes are runes that were used by the Anglo-Saxons and Medieval Frisians (collectively called Anglo-Frisians) as an alphabet in their native writing system, recording both Old English and Old Frisian (Old English: rūna, ᚱᚢᚾᚪ, "rune").
The distinction made by Unicode between character and glyph variant is somewhat problematic in the case of the runes; the reason is the high degree of variation of letter shapes in historical inscriptions, with many "characters" appearing in highly variant shapes, and many specific shapes taking the role of a number of different characters over the period of runic use (roughly the 3rd to 14th ...
| language = language(s) used by the text, e.g. Middle High German, Old Norse, Hiberno-Latin, etc. | date = (approximate) date of composition, or date range | date of issue = date when a law was promulgated, charter issued, etc. | provenance = place of origin, e.g. region or monastic house | state of existence = if appropriate, mark as ...
Outside of mathematics, the character set has seen some limited decorative use, but it lacks punctuation and other characters necessary for running text, and the Unicode standard for setting non-mathematical material in blackletter is to use ordinary Latin code points with a dedicated blackletter font. Mathematical Fraktur:
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]
FRB Cistercian font (OTF) at GitHub. Uses the Private Use Area, since Unicode has declined to assign character codes. Font characters are segments, to be combined into the complete numerals. Cistercian number generator at dCode. Uses digit shapes similar to the astrolabe (vertical stave, triangular 5).
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 ...