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Typographic Myths and Fabled Origins
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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  • 1. Ancient script rumored as typography’s primordial archetype despite stylistic distance
  • 2. Legendary typeface claimed to predict end-times printed in cryptic codices
  • 3. Type design descriptor linked to fallacious stories of unmeasurable kerning precision
  • 4. Emotional release word linked to a legendary font based on ancient manuscripts
  • 5. Decorative flourishes rumored to have secret linguistic significance in old print legends
  • 8. Describes the nature of urban tales surrounding fonts like Helvetica and Times New Roman
  • 10. Sixteenth-century punchcutter whose name masks centuries of misattributed type stories
  • 16. Ambiguous blot whose typographic fate is intertwined with reader perception tales
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  • 6. The discipline at the center of countless myths about mysterious letter origins
  • 7. Sequence whose historical creation is often romanticized beyond archival evidence
  • 9. Letter pairing often enveloped in mystical storytelling about ancient scribes’ secrets
  • 11. Ethnolinguistic myth often cited in debunked typographic serif origins
  • 12. Often disputed quality of iconic typefaces claimed to come from mythical foundries
  • 13. Sentences born from typographic folklore purported to reveal hidden messages
  • 14. Study of types ironically confused with mythical interpretations of lettering shapes
  • 15. This font style is central to many typographic folklore debates on readability myths

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