As mentioned in the previous post, I have decided to digitalise the following example:
Luckily, the original specimen that was chosen to digitalise was of high quality, so digitalising the characters was easy.
First the standard upper and lowercase characters were digitalised.
Current progress:
Getting there:
Although the uppercase Z has a heavier top serif, I felt it would be more equal with a lower serif that was slightly larger:
An example of a lowercase u swash:
Digitalising the numerals:
A really expressive lowercase s swash:
To save time I added the same swashes to different characters all at once:
Adding a serif to an uppercase K:
The finalised characters:
These will be used for headlines and subsections in the final book.
