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Available packs:

17C Print Pack
Insular Minuscule Pack
Rustic Capitals OT Pack
Written Square Capitals OT Pack
Uncial OT Pack

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Written Square Capitals OT Pack

This Single Typeface Pack contains one font: Written Square Capitals

Important Note: To access the special OpenType features in this font, you will need to use an OpenType enabled application. The full character set can, however, be accessed in any Windows or Macintosh application. See advanced type for full details.

CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Order all three Majuscules (Rustic, Uncial and Written Square Caps) for a special price: see prices page.

Typeface display:

Note: this is a Capital Set; it deviates from our standard fonts in that only a single Modern font is provided - no ancient font or lower-case characters exist as these were not in use at the time of the original scripts. However, with these exceptions a complete modern character set is provided, including all punctuation, foreign and accented characters.

OpenType Features:

[OpenType Feature Key | OpenType Information]

Historical note:

The Romans perfected the ‘Square Capitals’ majuscule which, in written form (Quadrata or Written Square Capitals), was used from around the 2nd century AD. If used for whole documents then it was usually written without word spacing or punctuation; by the medieval period, its use was restricted to displayed matter. The square style was highly legible and, when used in inscriptional form (Capitales Monumentales), became the standard by which legibility is still judged today. Note the letters F and L rise above the line.