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Sketch 11

Snell Roundhand Black by Matthew Carter (1966) based on work by Charles Snell (17th century) as a hand-drawn script. Fell into disuse with the introduction of mechanical type due to the complexity of the letterforms.

Typeface

If you haven’t already, read through the Lettering Manual sections I posted in the Typeface Help folder. Then create a Google Doc titled “Type Category” in your typeface folder in Google Drive. In that document, specify what category your typeface will be and describe at least five key features as described in the reading. If there are aspects of your typeface that will differ from the description in the reading, discuss those as well.

Continue Type Tool tutorials (/S/).

Work on lowercase glyphs in Type Tool.

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