bookhands – A collection of book-hand fonts
This is a set of book-hand (MetaFont) fonts and packages covering manuscript scripts from the 1st century until Gutenberg and Caxton. The included hands are:Square Capitals (1st century onwards);Roman Rustic (1st–6th centuries);Insular Minuscule (6th cenury onwards);Carolingian Minuscule (8th–12th centuries);Early Gothic (11th–12th centuries);Gothic Textura Quadrata (13th–15th centuries);Gothic Textura Prescisus vel sine pedibus (13th century onwards);Rotunda (13–15th centuries);Humanist Minuscule (14th century onwards);Uncial (3rd–6th centuries);Half Uncial (3rd–9th centuries);Artificial Uncial (6th–10th centuries); andInsular Majuscule (6th–9th centuries).
| CTAN path | /fonts/bookhands |
|---|---|
| Documentation |
Readme Samples of collection |
| License | The LaTeX Project Public License |
| Maintainer | Peter R. Wilson |
| Contained in | TeXLive as bookhands |
| MiKTeX as bookhands | |
| Topics |
a collection of packages fonts of scripts used for manuscript books |
