A Victorian design similar to Celtic, but with decorative descending
tails attached to the left of the caps. Small caps are unadorned.
No lowercase. Originated at MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan around 1865, with a Shaded
style added before 1883 [Reichardt 2011]. The basic design was sold
in Germany as Skelett antik (by Bauer, Krebs, Stempel, AG für
Schriftgießerei u. M.), Zierschrift 529
(Schelter
& Giesecke, Genzsch
& Heyse, John), and
Schweifschrift (Weber). The Shaded was known as Skelett
verziert (Bauer) and Mediäval schattiert
(Stempel, 1890) [Wetzig 1926–40].
K22 Monastic (Toto, 2010, used for sample) is a
digitization based on a showing in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian
Display Alphabets (Dover Publications, 1976), supplemented
by numerals and a few Cyrillic characters from other sources. See
also Huruvida More…
A Victorian design similar to Celtic, but with decorative descending tails attached to the left of the caps. Small caps are unadorned. No lowercase. Originated at MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan around 1865, with a Shaded style added before 1883 [Reichardt 2011]. The basic design was sold in Germany as Skelett antik (by Bauer, Krebs, Stempel, AG für Schriftgießerei u. M.), Zierschrift 529 (Schelter & Giesecke, Genzsch & Heyse, John), and Schweifschrift (Weber). The Shaded was known as Skelett verziert (Bauer) and Mediäval schattiert (Stempel, 1890) [Wetzig 1926–40].
K22 Monastic (Toto, 2010, used for sample) is a digitization based on a showing in Dan X. Solo’s Victorian Display Alphabets (Dover Publications, 1976), supplemented by numerals and a few Cyrillic characters from other sources. See also Huruvida (Cercurius, 2006).
Not to be confused with Monastic, the export name used for Lichte Erbar-Versalien.
