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Single Typeface Packs

Available packs:
17C Print OT Pack
Rustic Capitals OT Pack
Written Square Capitals OT Pack
Uncial OT Pack

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17th Century Print OT Pack

This Single Typeface Pack contains a family
of two fonts: 17C Print OT and 17C
Italic OT.
Important Note: To access
historical characters and the special OpenType features in this font,
you will need to use an OpenType enabled application. Office for Windows
provides this
as standard; Mac users will need to be using Apple TextEdit, Pages, Microsoft
Office 2004+, the Adobe CS range or Quark XPress 7. See opentype for
full details.

Typeface display:



Some of the extra historical characters provided:


OpenType Features:

Text
(Caxton-style) glyph set
Footnotes
glyph set
Drop capitals
glyph set
[OpenType
Feature Key | OpenType Information]

Historical note:
The advent of the printing press saw the early type designers, typified
by Guttenberg and Caxton, striving to reproduce the contemporaneous written
styles, which, in the early fifteenth century were based on various forms
of text hand. The Humanists of the Italian Renaissance wanted a ‘new’ writing
style and they found inspiration in the the old tenth century Carolingian
hand, through its clean and elegant form. In deference to its roots it
was known as Littera Antiqua, and, coupled both with a cursive, forward
slanted variant known as Italic, and Roman square capitals, it became
the de facto style across Europe, by the beginning of the sixteenth century
(although notably not in the Germanic countries where text hand remained
the standard). Inevitably, the printers embraced this new writing style
as the standard and most legible typeface. Such was its success, that
there really is very little difference between this and the ‘roman’ typestyles
of today
The 17C Print OT fonts were taken from a book published in 1686; they
were designed to incorporate not only the imperfections but also the
art of seventeenth century printing, including many glyph variants
based on optical size, ligature, alphabet and typestyle.
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