THE THREE MODERNS
There's a surfeit of meaning in individual words (most have many definitions) and "#modern" is no exception. But put a few words together for context, and that helps clarify things.
REINVENTING THE PAST - Focusing on the sea-change that occurred in the look of language around 1800, the Auld English fonts simulate the experience of reading prior to that great disruption, by diverse means.
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3 Things You Must Know About Auld English:
🕰️ It’s not just a font—it’s a time portal.
✨ A font that feeleth like the past—and worketh in the now.
📜 Designed by Nick Shinn @shinntype
🖋️ Download it FREE. 🪄Cast thy words.
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A VERY BAD FONT
Auld English and Auld English Spell (Free) are very bad founts indeed.
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"Thou art not ready. The Auld English Spell hath been unleashed.
Modern words. Bewitched by history. 🪄 Witness the font that transfigures thine tongue. Now speaketh like a bard—or be roasted like a knave."
✨A #font revival 400 years in the making.
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✨️The remarkable new ‘Auld English Spell’ fonts by Nick Shinn @shinntype are here now! FREE at: https://t.co/9oBdxON4VB
Photo credit: 'Edward Pierce' by Isaac Fuller (circa 17th century) - Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons.
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Did you catch my latest #FontLife blog Essay?!
WORKING THE COLLECTION
#Rembrandt’s etchings, as a body of work, inspired the catalogue raisonné
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