Can you show a sample?

?? you mean of Baskerville, or of the Old English glyphs? Actually, I suppose it's moot, I have no way of posting either . . .

Baskerville is not the problem, but I have NO idea what an wynn, a yogh or a paet might look like. Judging by the lack of response on the board I'm guessing I'm not alone.

I can't honestly believe you have no way of posting samples! Have you never heard of Google?

You could take a look at the Junicode font. It seems to have the glyphs you want.

Patternmaker -- Thanks, the Junicode fonts will be useful.

Ms. Fabricant -- You can get an idea of what these characters look like from the Unicode chart, Latin Extended B -- their Unicode values are 021C (cap Yogh), 021D (lowercase yogh), 01F7 (cap Wynn) 01BF (lowercase wynn).

But, and the reason samples don't help if you don't know Old English, the runic characters from which some are borrowed, as well as variations in both scribal forms & 17th century fonts is, for example, that 01B7 can & has also served as a cap Yogh, as well as another glyph also known as the "Old English g" (haven

Charles

Don't know if this will help you or if it is in your budget but Michael Bixler does superb Monotype composition that he can furnish in camera ready copy (he supplied the comp for the earlier Edward Tufte books) and he has the English Baskerville 169 with all the characters you need. We did an 1830's entymological dictionary a very long ways back with metal type furnished by Bixler and it required all these characters, and more.

http://www.mwbixler.com/

Christian

I thought it would be a fun exercise, so I made a few of the characters. I don't think this violates the EULA, as long as you don't roll the whole thing into a font and try to distribute it.

I couldn't really find a good example of a modernized 'ond' character, though.

Baskerville OE Characters OEBaskerville.pdf (18.6 k)