AVAILABLE CALLIGRAPHIC FONTS
| SCRIPT | PRICE | FILE TYPE & SIZE |
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| Rustic & Carolingian | £10 | True Type, 92 kB |
| Uncial & Carolingian | £10 | True Type, 92 kB |
| Rustic & Uncial | £10 | True Type, 75 kB |
| Foundational | Free | True Type, 65 kB |
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The Rustica et Carolina font set consists of 404 characters, or letters and other symbols; this means that it includes pan-european characters for multilingual writing. It also includes accented and special characters, as well as the basic Greek alphabet, Roman numerals and symbols for the Medieval Music Notation. (See Character Set View)
Details of how to load the font file in your computer and how to set up simple shortcuts to call the special characters from the keyboard are provided in a pdf file sent with the font file.
Each Font set contains a full list of kerning rules.
Before ordering please read the following notes so that you know what you are buying.
The Rustic script is a majuscule (capital letters) only script; there were no minuscule letters, hence fitting this script into the standard format of a character set for the keyboard of a personal computer implies that if you were to press a minuscule letter, then you would not read or print anything but a blank space.
The Carolingian script, on the other hand, is a minuscule only calligraphic script; there were no majuscule Carolingian characters. If a capital letter was needed in the days of Charles Magne and Alcuin, then they would have used either a Rustic script or an Uncial script; the latter was also essentially a majuscule script.
For this reason I have combined two types of scripts in one character font so that you have both majuscules and minuscules characters on your keyboard. For example, Rustic & Carolingian comprises the Rustic character set (capitals only) and the Carolingian character set (small letters only).
Uncial & Carolingian includes the Uncial script for the capitals and the Carolingian for the small letters.
Rustic and Uncial, being both capital letters, have been placed as Rustic in the Capital positions of the keyboard and Uncial in the minuscule positions of the keyboard. This is useful if you are to compose a text in Uncial and use the Rustic for the headings.
Foundational is a modern script developed by Edward Johnston at the end of the XIX century and is comprised of both capital and small letters. Although it draws from the Carolingian its form is much more like the Humanist script than the Carolingian.