Early 19th century script

iAInc29 November 2011 · 13:03

I found this beauty years ago in one of my old letter pressed books and since then I wanted to work with it, but couldn't find anything alike, so I redrew it and filled in the blanks (about 1/3 of the characters needed for English and German were missing).

This is the first draft (I'll call it Reverendissima), so there is still plenty of room for improvement, but before I go crazy with it: Does that font exist in digital form already or is it as much a find as I thought?

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fvilanakis29 November 2011 · 14:22

French 111 by Nicholas Gando
looks a bit similar to me

iAInc29 November 2011 · 14:36

That's right. It's very similar. Probably an older variation of it. QRSTU are quite different though.

Riccardo Sartori29 November 2011 · 15:09

It looks a variant of French Script/Typo Upright/Linoscript (http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/typo-upright/alternate_cuts.html).

QRSTU are quite different though.

In your sample, only Q and R are visible

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