Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia

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Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia [Peter S. Baker] Peter S. Baker, an English professor at the University of Virginia, offers free TrueType and PostScript fonts. these include: Anglo-Saxon Caps. Beowulf-1 (1995, a pseudo-Gaelic face; BeowulfOT dates from 2018). Bury Caps (2014, free at OFL). This decorative typeface was inspired by the display capitals in the 12th-century Bury Bible. The elegant Carolingian typeface Eadui (2010), a reproduction of English Caroline Minuscule as written by Eadui Basan, a scribe at eleventh-century Christ Church, Canterbury. Elstob (2018-2019). A variable font for for medievalists. He writes: The Elstob font, named for Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756), a celebrated early scholar of Old English language and literature, is based on the Double Pica commissioned by Bishop John Fell (1625-1686) for the use of the Oxford University Press. Wherever possible, it is modeled on a specimen book printed in 1925 with type cast in the 1890s from the seventeenth-century matrices; digital images from the 1693 and 1706 Fell specimen books served as backup, and also an early eighteenth-century folio in which a lengthy dedication was printed in Fell's Double Pica. The type doesn't have a great reputation: the typographer Stanley Morison thought it amateurish in comparison with the excellent Fell English. However, its angular character (especially its flat or flattish serifs with minimal or no brackets) makes it well suited to adaptation as a variable font. Interlace Set (2015). A dingbat font for making Hiberno-Saxon interlace patterns. The important and well-designed Junius family (1996, modern hybrid Gaelic). This led to Junicode, the working name of a Unicode font for medievalists. The fonts in the latter project are Junicode-Bold, JunicodeItalic, Junicode (2002), and are by Peter S. Baker and Briery Creek Software. André G. Isaak writes: Junicode isn't the only free font for mediaevalists out there, but it's certainly one of the two most well-designed ones (the other being Andron Scriptor). I used to teach courses on the history of English and I used Junius (the predecessor of Junicode) for many of my handouts because I preferred it to all of the commercial fonts which I had looked at. In 2020, Junicode was rebuilt into JuniusX or Junicode New. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Open Font Library link, where he is known as psb6m. Fontspace link. Link to his foundry, Thornbec Staefwyrhtan. Github link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Peter Baker's old English page at the University of Virginia Dafont page Fontspace page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Typography ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Standards/ISO/Unicode ⦿ Celtic/Gaelic fonts ⦿ Type scene in Virginia ⦿ Lombardic types ⦿ Carolingian typefaces ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿ Uncial typefaces ⦿ Rune fonts ⦿