[HN Gopher] A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis ___________________________________________________________________ A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis Author : _emacsomancer_ Score : 47 points Date : 2023-07-20 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.linyangchen.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.linyangchen.com) | 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! ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-20 23:00 UTC)