Gothique Cursive by Errance

This is the fist part of this font, just the lower case letters, no punctuation & numbers.
It was inspired by a 1413's manuscript.
The final font will be an opentype one, with ligature, final letters, etc but I've a lot of work to do to finish it.

It's difficult to read & the "s" look like the "f", don't worry, it's normal.

VaudGenealogist Featured By Owner Dec 28, 2012

Many thanks for getting this far with the gothic cursive font. I could still wish for additional variants of r and v, among others, and less peculiar and/or more typical numerals. But what is really needed is the "combining diacritical" and similar characters that support the tradition of Latin abbreviations (many of these traditional abbreviations were carried into French scripts as late as the 17th Century and perhaps even beyond). Most of the required symbols are already defined in the Unicode standard, thanks to MUFI (www.mufi.info). Why is there a need for such a font? It is extremely difficult to discuss Latin and French paleography without a font that actually resembles the manuscripts! At least it is possible to come a little closer to that goal, using 1413 Cursive for the text and borrowing some of the diacritical marks and abbreviation signs from other fonts. I hope you will be able to extend this font!

Errance Featured By Owner Jan 2, 2013 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I've looked the Mufi documents, but it contains a lot of characters. It'll take a lot of time to do that. If you can list the most important missing characters, I can add them.
Once I'll do them, I may work on the less important ones.

VaudGenealogist Featured By Owner Jan 3, 2013

A tall order, because there are so many abbreviation signs in common use during the period where the gothic cursive scipts were fashionable! But I'm working on it! My guess is that about half a dozen additional letter variants and maybe a dozen "combining diacritical" forms and other symbols would do the trick. I'm collecting examples of these from 15th Century manuscripts from French-speaking Switzerland.

VaudGenealogist Featured By Owner Jan 11, 2013

Some first steps: I have posted a table of the signs that I have encountered, with examples of most of them, at [link] . (I will update this table as I collect more information.)

Also, I have posted an interesting document from 1417, half in French, half in Latin, containing typical abbrevations signs in each language, at [link] .

CROMantis Featured By Owner Nov 23, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I am nuts about (french) medieval hands, esp. about "civilite" type of letters

Thanks for this, great work

Errance Featured By Owner Nov 28, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I hope one day I have time to do another typo like that..

LibraMasonXIII Featured By Owner Jun 20, 2009

Thank u.. Love it

tricix Featured By Owner Sep 21, 2008

Hope you like what I did with this font!

[link]

Yes, it's a real one

I was searching for a tribal-like font, so the name isn't too clear

but after inspection, people suddenly reconize the name... and it had to fit with my other tattoo's

Thanks for making it!

jiteroshi Featured By Owner Jul 20, 2008

sugoi neh~

astig :3

thanks a bunch~

dentduloup Featured By Owner Jul 18, 2007

Ta police est splendide. Vraiment magnifique. J'espère que tu réussiras aussi à faire les majuscules, parce que ça rend vraiment super bien dans Word. Alors avec les majuscules, wouhou!!! La gothique cursive est ma préférée, c'est aussi la plus dure à calligraphier à la main je trouve, car elle est moins précise que les autres. Je n'ose même pas imaginer le boulot pour en faire une police -__-
Bon courage, en encore bravo pour ton travail.

Errance Featured By Owner Jul 19, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Merci ! Je pense que tu vas être content, j'ai presque fini les majuscules en fait. Je m'y suis remis il y a quelques mois & là, j'en suis au "V", mais il me reste encore à raccorder les lettre proprement, ce qui va prendre du temps. Mais peut-être que dans une semaine ou deux...

dentduloup Featured By Owner Jul 20, 2007

Waaaaahhh c'est super!!! J'ai installé ta police sur mon PC et j'avoue que c'est super joli. Bravo pour le boulot, ça doit pas être rien, j'ai jamais essayé mais j'ose à peine imaginer le temps que tu y passes. Bon courage, et encore bravo!

SpazticArwen Featured By Owner Apr 23, 2007

any rules for use? This is very elagent.

Errance Featured By Owner May 18, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Sorry...
Do what you want with it (exept commercial use), if you put your work on DA, send me the link please, I like to see what the others can do with my font.

SpazticArwen Featured By Owner May 19, 2007

kk, thanks!

ninja-DOOM-steve Featured By Owner Apr 2, 2007

Hey. I liked your font, and I used it a little bit in this piece. Hope you're ok with that. [link]

Errance Featured By Owner Apr 15, 2007 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

No problem, thanks a lot.
I like to see what people do with my work.

mrwhyme Featured By Owner Jan 21, 2007

awesome font.. gothicly gothique!

SageOwl Featured By Owner Dec 31, 2006 Hobbyist General Artist

Great font...

psyk4 Featured By Owner Oct 3, 2006

this is a beautiful font.....

kingm Featured By Owner Sep 22, 2006

i like it. great. i am not sure, but i think it is "f" which is fater than the other letters. that's great. (i hope you know that "f" an the "long-s" don't have exactly the same shape!)

Vhaeos Featured By Owner Sep 12, 2006

This font is amazing looking. Thank you.

Biljan Featured By Owner Sep 11, 2006

wooow..! thnx!

Sezaic Featured By Owner Jul 28, 2006

I've wanted fonts like this for a long time. Thank you!

Anya-Kai Featured By Owner Jul 13, 2006 Photographer

Wow, great font

thanks for sharing xx added it to favs

Motorbikeman Featured By Owner Jul 5, 2006 Hobbyist Photographer

I love this font

Nimdraug Featured By Owner Jun 24, 2006

A really nice font! Thanks for sharing it. Your other stuff is very beatifull to! So nice infact that ill +Watch you!

Byru-Eridanus Featured By Owner Jun 12, 2006

I don't speak French, but I am about to download it.

PrinsesaZelda Featured By Owner Jun 7, 2006

beautiful beautiful. I'll definitely download this font. reminds me of sleepy hollow.

zeshadok Featured By Owner May 24, 2006

Wow, elle a l'air top, je vais l'essayerpour voir (en plus, la gothique cursive : ma préférée !!

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Merci Errance

Errance Featured By Owner May 30, 2006 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Elle est encore moyenne, j'ai du boulot à faire dessus.

maxlepotager Featured By Owner May 23, 2006

heeeeeeeeeeeeeeein mais c'est don ben beau *_*

Starless-Moonlight Featured By Owner May 22, 2006

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaah c'est une police en fait ^^

Je peux l'implémenter sur mon PC ?

Errance Featured By Owner May 22, 2006 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

Oui oui, c'est une police & tu peux l'installer.

Holyrose Featured By Owner May 22, 2006

Pas mal dis donc

. En plus ça doit pas être évident de créer des cursives, ça demande plus de rigueur j'imagine.

Errance Featured By Owner May 23, 2006 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

C'est vraiment pénible... pour un premier essai, j'aurai du prendre plus simple.
Je dois faire en sorte que toutes les lettres se lient ensembles, donc il faut tout vérifier, lettre par lettre.