Antiquarian Scribe was designed by Brian Willson and published by 3 Islands Press. Antiquarian Scribe includes 1 design. p > Henri Abraham Chatelain was a cartographer and publisher of the well-known Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a L'Histoire, a world atlas launched between 1705 and 1732 in Amsterdam.

A couple of years earlier, at an antique book shop in London, I purchased a page from Chatelain's atlas-a page covering the Near East, India, the Indian Ocean-that had an especially attractive, oblique handlettering design. The text remains in French, which provided me a lot of samples of diacritics and accented characters.

The general impact is cool and understandable, with a clearly historical flair.

Font Family: Antiquarian Scribe

Tags: antiqued, calligraphy, engraved, italic, map