The Novice

by Pilaster Davy

Character Set

574 characters

Punctuation


                              U+003E

! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + - = [ ] { } | ; : ' " , . < > ? / \

Size Waterfall

72px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

48px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

36px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

24px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

16px

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Text Samples

Pangrams

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

Pack my box with five dozen liquor jugs

How vexingly quick daft zebras jump

Paragraph

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type to make written language legible, readable, and appealing when displayed. The arrangement of type involves selecting typefaces, point sizes, line lengths, line-spacing, and letter-spacing, and adjusting the space between pairs of letters.

Numbers

0123456789

2.718281828459045

9,876,543.21

Designer's Notes

The Novice is a modern blackletter font inspired by Illuminated Manuscripts, a misspent youth at rock concerts and a middle age addled by strong imported lager beer. I created it in a draughty unheated scriptorium by candlelight using only squid ink and a goose feather quill, dressed only in a rough horsehair cassock, then retired to the comfort of my studio to digitise the glyphs and make it usable for the modern world as a .ttf.

The Novice is free for personal and not for profit use, but a donation is required for ANY commercial use. A donation, of any size grants licence to use The Novice for commercial purposes. The same donation will pay for more strong imported lager beer, squid ink & goose feathers and keep the fonts coming, so, be pure, be vigilant, be generous.

Update has extended language support (including Cyrillic) and tweaked metrics.

Editor Specimen

The Novice

Character Set

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Punctuation

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Designer's Notes