Type
Three pairings for the site’s own text, headings and code, set with the same words. The site is set in A. The rubricated texts keep EB Garamond whichever is chosen, since the ornament is measured against it. Every face here, and every face the styles draw letters from, is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; the licence files are in the site’s faces and fonts folders.
A. Oxford
Junicode 2 · IM Fell Great Primer · Courier Prime
Christian Astrology
William Lilly printed his square figure of the heavens in London in 1647. The middle square, he wrote, “is to write the day, yeer, and hour”. MS 4670 in the Wellcome Collection was copied about 1725; its planetary signs are drawn in red, 230 pixels high in a cell of 330.
The Tarot de Marseille of Nicolas Conver, 1760, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Using it
Figure 3. The Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896, with 87 woodcuts after Edward Burne-Jones.
rubricate(article, { style: 'tarot', rich: 0.5 });
Junicode is Peter S. Baker’s face for medievalists, modelled on the Pica Roman that Oxford University bought in 1692 and used for George Hickes’s Thesaurus of the northern languages (1703–05). The Fell types came to the same press some twenty years before, so text and headings share a press and an era.
Junicode has true small caps (MS 4670), old-style figures (1647, 1725) and a weight axis. Beside the specimens’ EB Garamond it is related without being the same.
Courier Prime is a typewriter face with its serifs intact, nearer to a printer’s or a scholar’s desk than to a programmer’s editor.
The recommendation, and what the site is built in.
B. Fournier
Source Serif 4 · Source Serif 4 Display · IBM Plex Mono
Christian Astrology
William Lilly printed his square figure of the heavens in London in 1647. The middle square, he wrote, “is to write the day, yeer, and hour”. MS 4670 in the Wellcome Collection was copied about 1725; its planetary signs are drawn in red, 230 pixels high in a cell of 330.
The Tarot de Marseille of Nicolas Conver, 1760, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Using it
Figure 3. The Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896, with 87 woodcuts after Edward Burne-Jones.
rubricate(article, { style: 'tarot', rich: 0.5 });
Frank Grießhammer’s Source Serif follows the types of Pierre-Simon Fournier (Paris, 1740s). Version 4 has an optical size axis, so the headings use the cut drawn for large sizes and the text the one drawn for reading.
The clearest of the three on a screen, and the plainest. It would suit a library’s documentation anywhere; that is also its weakness here.
C. Garamond
EB Garamond · IM Fell Great Primer · IBM Plex Mono
Christian Astrology
William Lilly printed his square figure of the heavens in London in 1647. The middle square, he wrote, “is to write the day, yeer, and hour”. MS 4670 in the Wellcome Collection was copied about 1725; its planetary signs are drawn in red, 230 pixels high in a cell of 330.
The Tarot de Marseille of Nicolas Conver, 1760, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Using it
Figure 3. The Kelmscott Chaucer, 1896, with 87 woodcuts after Edward Burne-Jones.
rubricate(article, { style: 'tarot', rich: 0.5 });
Georg Duffner’s revival of the Garamond types shown in the Egenolff-Berner specimen, Frankfurt, 1592. Full small caps, old-style figures and historical ligatures.
It is the specimens’ own face. The site and the work would speak with one voice, and the site would not stand apart from what it shows.