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Esoteric Antiquarian Typography Lexicon
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  • 1. Lowercase letterforms derived from Carolingian script
  • 2. Art of shorthand scripts, ancient style of swift writing
  • 3. Describes typeforms echoing ancient Roman letter proportion
  • 4. Sharp-edged transitional serif from eighteenth-century England
  • 5. Gothic script notorious for dense, spiky strokes
  • 8. Latin term for alphabetic characters in manuscript tradition
  • 11. Medieval script associated with the order of poverty
  • 15. Plural script style used in early medieval codices
  • 16. Lombardic rounded script contrasting Gothic angularity
  • 18. Calligraphic hand used chiefly by medieval clerics
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  • 6. Traditional typographic unit roughly equal to 1/6 inch
  • 7. French chancery cursive popular with Renaissance scribes
  • 9. Rounded majuscules favored in early Christian manuscripts
  • 10. Obscure variant of italic scripts in Renaissance Europe
  • 12. Classic Venetian typeface named after a Renaissance humanist
  • 13. Small but clear serif style invented by Dutch printers
  • 14. Rare decorative script resembling stencil print patterns
  • 17. Rare technical term for archaic ornamental typography
  • 19. Typographic union of two or more letters into one glyph
  • 20. Sixteenth-century French type designer’s classic Roman
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