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Forgotten Glyphs of Typographic Relics
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. Italian incunabula typeface blurring Roman and handwritten tradition
- 2. Type style misnomered by renaissance scholars, embodying harsh verticality
- 3. Early Venetian serif typeface named after a Renaissance humanist
- 5. Fictitious misread of an obsolete serif style, hinting at faulty ink flow (trick clue)
- 8. Rounded blackletter variant prevalent in southern Europe’s manuscripts
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- 4. Medieval script with dense, angular strokes, once the norm for Germanic texts
- 6. Obscure serif typeface inspired by Caucasian manuscript heraldry (cryptic misdirection)
- 7. Pre-modern serif category with diagonal stress and gentle bracketed serifs
- 9. German fractured typeface banned post WWII for its association with nationalism
- 10. 17th-century humanist-inspired typeface named after a small servant—now eclipsed
- 11. Rounded majuscule script favored by scribes in early medieval manuscripts
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