Process drawings and calligraphy

Scan of the 1494 incunable. At right, some glyphs collected from the text. I was struck by the integration of some sturdy verticle letters—such as the m, n, and u—with more exhuberant flourished letters—like the g, h, and x. The challenge was to allow them to live together

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Typeface design reinterpreting the gothic rotunda type used in
a 1494 edition of Saint Augustine's sermons in the collection of
the école Estienne's library