[HN Gopher] A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
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       A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis
        
       Author : _emacsomancer_
       Score  : 47 points
       Date   : 2023-07-20 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | twic wrote:
       | When I was trying to avoid writing my thesis I just played video
       | games
        
       | gerikson wrote:
       | This is a typeface I'd be prepared to enable Google Fonts to
       | use...
        
       | edent wrote:
       | That's wonderful!
       | 
       | Does anyone know the best way to convert an old printed
       | manuscript into a font file?
        
       | lordleft wrote:
       | Looks like it's time to put this on my kindle.
        
       | fumeux_fume wrote:
       | This 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.
        
       | mcbuilder wrote:
       | Crazy or not, it looks great!
        
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