This family (Two complete files plus a limited Initials one) was created inspired from the sets of fonts used in 1543 by Michael Isingrin, printer in Basell (Germany) to print the splendid "New Kre¸terbuch..."("New herbal..."), with numerous nice pictures, the masterpiece of Leonhart Fuchs, father of the modern botany. It is a Schwabacher pattern, with three different sets of fonts, small (± 4mm for the upper case) in the main text, larger for titles (± 8mm for the upper case) and large Initials or lettrines (five lines of main text). This font contains standard ligatures and German historical ligatures ( german double s, long s, tz, ch,...) and diacritics (special umlaut "e superscript" and "∞" instead of dieresis with letters a, o and u,) naturely, we have added numerous letters lacking in the original to permit a contemporary use of the font.
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