{"title":"AJ Quadrata","description":"\u003cp\u003eOnce, Blackletter was a calligraphy style. Full of ligatures, with letters bumping into each other to create an unapologetic picket-fence pattern. Some even claimed that the regularity improved legibility! But then Blackletter was cast into metal, and only a handful of established ligatures survived, while most interletter connections were disentangled. Everyone since followed suit, and hundreds of years later, digital Blackletter fonts were modelled mostly on the metal fonts that prevailed rather than the original handwriting. Up until now!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAJ Quadrata\u003c\/strong\u003e is an authentic revival of the textura quadrata hand, and its major inspiration is a 15th-century Latin manuscript of the Bible from Zwolle, the Netherlands. The typeface is delivered in two flavors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe default cut is a modern take on textura quadrata that can be useful for today and tomorrow. The standard ligatures feature employs nearly all letters. The tittle of i retains its original, hasty squiggle form (except for the Turkish localization). Discretionary ligatures include medieval ligatures da, de, do, pa, pe, po (and their mixed-case counterparts!). Stylistic sets allow to use historic letter variants such as long s and rotunda r, closed-counter a, and alternate capitals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAJ Quadrata Medieval \u003c\/strong\u003eis perfect for setting Latin. Default forms of capital \u003cem\u003eF\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eH\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eO\u003c\/em\u003e are swapped with the alternates. The squiggles above \u003cem\u003ei\u003c\/em\u003e only appear for disamibiguation nearby \u003cem\u003em\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003en\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eu\u003c\/em\u003e, as in original manuscripts. Discretionary ligatures and historic variants are promoted to the standard ligatures feature to make room in the discretionary ligatures feature for a variety of scribal abbreviations. Dedicated stylistic sets include medieval punctuation and justification alternates — glyphs with elongated terminals used for lengthening lines that end up too short.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003eRubrum \u003c\/strong\u003estyles can be layered and colored to create the illuminated effect on the capital letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBesides a faithful rendition of extended Latin including \u003cstrong\u003eVietnamese\u003c\/strong\u003e, numerous synthetic additions are included: polytonic \u003cstrong\u003eGreek\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eArmenian\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eCyrillic \u003c\/strong\u003e(with Bulgarian and Serbian\/Macedonian localizations).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth flavors of the typeface can be considered a starting point that can be further customized using OpenType features, including Stylistic Sets (some features differ between AJ Quadrata and AJ Quadrata Medieval):\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess01 Alt E\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess02 Descending F \/ Roman F\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess03 Uncial H \/ Roman H\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess04 Angular O \/ Round O\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess05 Contextual closed-counter a\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess06 Diamond-dot i j \/ Always dotted i, j\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess07 Contextual rotunda r \/ No r rotunda\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess08 Contextual long s \/ No long s\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess09 Dotless y\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess10 Serbian Cyrillic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess11 Alt Cyrillic de\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess12 Alt Cyrillic zhe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess13 Alt Cyrillic sha\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess14-ss17 [reserved for future use]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess18 Scribal punctuation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess19 Alt linking hyphen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ess20 Justification alternates\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.myfonts.com\/pt\/collections\/aj-quadrata-font-adam-jagosz.oembed","provider":"MyFonts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}