Recreating a 17th century book
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For whatever reason, I decided to undertake a hobby project of recreating (the first page of) Sir Thomas Browne's 16th century Urne Burial in TeX and friends.
I was inspired by this effort. So the questions I have are -
- How does one go about replicating the dropped capitals? I can only think of stripping them from a high resolution scan of the original page.
- Preliminary inspection of the letters makes me think this a variant of the Garamond typefaces. Is this correct? The italicized Urne-Buriall in the second line does not look like Garamond but...
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For whatever reason, I decided to undertake a hobby project of recreating (the first page of) Sir Thomas Browne's 16th century Urne Burial in TeX and friends.
I was inspired by this effort. So the questions I have are -
- How does one go about replicating the dropped capitals? I can only think of stripping them from a high resolution scan of the original page.
- Preliminary inspection of the letters makes me think this a variant of the Garamond typefaces. Is this correct? The italicized Urne-Buriall in the second line does not look like Garamond but...
typography
asked 29 mins ago
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For whatever reason, I decided to undertake a hobby project of recreating (the first page of) Sir Thomas Browne's 16th century Urne Burial in TeX and friends.
I was inspired by this effort. So the questions I have are -
- How does one go about replicating the dropped capitals? I can only think of stripping them from a high resolution scan of the original page.
- Preliminary inspection of the letters makes me think this a variant of the Garamond typefaces. Is this correct? The italicized Urne-Buriall in the second line does not look like Garamond but...
typography
asked 29 mins ago
Koundinya Vajjha
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For whatever reason, I decided to undertake a hobby project of recreating (the first page of) Sir Thomas Browne's 16th century Urne Burial in TeX and friends.
I was inspired by this effort. So the questions I have are -
- How does one go about replicating the dropped capitals? I can only think of stripping them from a high resolution scan of the original page.
- Preliminary inspection of the letters makes me think this a variant of the Garamond typefaces. Is this correct? The italicized Urne-Buriall in the second line does not look like Garamond but...
typography
typography
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