Formal Text Hand
This Single Typeface pack
contains the Formal Text Hand font.
Important Note:
The full character set can be accessed in any Windows or
Macintosh application, but extra functionality is
available with OpenType/AAT enabled applications. See advanced type for full
details.
Typeface display:
Some of the extra historical characters
provided:
OpenType Features:
  
  
  
AAT Features:
Standard Ligatures, Historical Forms, Historical
Ligatures, Latin Abbreviations (general), Latin
Abbreviations (specific), British runes, Medieval English
Usage, Mathematical Symbols, Glyph Variants.
[OpenType
Feature Key | Advanced
Type Information]
Historical note:
In standard use throughout northern Europe from 1200,
'text' hands (so called because of the resemblance of a
page written in this style to a woven pattern or textus)
replaced the thinner, curved cursive hands; they arose
from the use of broader pens, producing heavy strokes and
acute angles. This is a particularly decorative text hand,
dating from the sixteenth century.
This typeface can also be ordered as part
of the A New Newe Booke
of Copies collection.
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