Tag: 16th century
Mercator Font
Gerardus Mercator was born in the Netherlands in 1512. His name has become synonymous with the Mercator map projection scheme where our globe is represented as a flat image, creating some distortion in the Northern and Southern extremities. It ultimately
P22 Operina Pro Font
Operina is based on a 16th century lettering model of the scribe Ludovico degli Arrighi (Vicentino Ludovico degli Arrighi) used in his 1522 instructional lettering book, “La Operina da Imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha.” This book contains what is considered