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soyagi@yiffit.net to Typography@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

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Shakespeare Serif - an experimental font based on the First Folio

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Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off on a journey, it is worth seeing if anyone else has tried this before. I found David Pustansky's First Folio Font. There's not much info about it, other than it's based on the 1623 folio. It's a nice font, but missing …

cross-posted from: https://open-source.social/m/technology@beehaw.org/t/15036

I’ve built a new font! Thoughts and feedback on my approach very welcome.

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