A historian Windows creates for the font used by Fernando II and Alfonso IX

A document file León Cathedral (in particular the document number 1065, a privilege granted Fernando II in 1186 to all the clergy of the capital) has helped the historian Leon Ricardo Chao has created a new typeface Windows in honor of the 1,100 th anniversary of the Kingdom of León.
This is not the first time that this high school teacher taking such an initiative a few years ago and created another which he called 'Visigothic Leon. "

According to Ricardo Chao has said on this occasion told "with a digitizer to me much easier task when the font to give a more regular and smooth, although it must be borne in mind that I'm still an amateur and the result is far from professional. However, as historian and medievalist, my intention has been to make a font as faithful as possible to those documents of the royal chancery of Ferdinand II and Alfonso IX, namely those for the years of the XII century.

Charo says in his blog that achieving this type of letter "I used as a basic model number 1065 of document archives of the Cathedral of Leon, a privilege granted Fernando II to all the clergy of the capital. The small letters reproduced as closely as possible those contained in the document, and capitalization are as shown in the inscriptions of signs boulders, which are broken or central wheel which used to have a command of the king or the kingdom. "

The resulting version is called simply 'Leon Cancilleresca' I've been as faithful as possible to the letter medieval compliance issues such as absence of dot the i's and Jacks, almost no separation between characters, the excessive height of scapes (= stick), as in the case of b, l, h, the disproportionate size of the capital, almost three times that of the case and the existence of a point on the "y", which always appears in the documents. "

In all cases and for readability the author has coined another version of this same typeface, which has been called 'Leon Cancilleresca Modern', 'more legible and consistent with our time.

In this version the i's and Jacks have overlapping points, there is greater separation between characters, the shafts have been cut, the case has been reduced to have a magnitude (size) that only double that in the case and has tried to eliminate point on the "y".

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