A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
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A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
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Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#2This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to use...
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#3Crazy or not, it looks great!
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#4When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
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#5That's wonderful!
Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed manuscript into a font file?
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#6Looks like it’s time to put this on my kindle.
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#7This is fantastic work. It's very hard to find historic fonts that haven't been overly modernized. For fun, I like to restore and re-print old playing card/tarot decks and other ephemera for use by a modern audience. In order to make them more legible it makes sense to use translated or reconstructed text. Having fonts like these readily available makes this work so much easier.
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#8When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video games
It's amazing what kind of epic projects a thesis can motivate you to take on (rather than your thesis).
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#9Looks like it’s time to put this on my kindle.
I've had the IM Fell fonts on my Kobo for a while. They don't work for every book, but they make a good change.
I didn't see a link to his final adjusted font, though?
Re: A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
#10> that one should never change the letterspacing of the lowercase letters
But with the microtype package it is acceptable to slightly expand or contract the letters to avoid hyphenation. Typically the limit is set to around 0.025em.
Anecdotally if you are applying letterspacing to uppercase letters, 0.025em is also a good default value to use.