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BabelStone Englisc

Description

BabelStone Englisc is a font for Old English in the general style of the Anglo-Saxon font cut for Franciscus Junius (1591–1677) in about 1655, and used in various editions of Anglo-Saxon texts published in Oxford during the 17th and 18th centuries, for example the Anglo-Saxon Heptateuch compiled by Edward Thwaites, and published in 1698. The font uses the same letterforms as the Junius font, but not necessarily exactly same glyph forms. Some characters are double-mapped, both to their proper Unicode code point and to the semantically-corresponding character (e.g. 'wynn' maps to 'wynn' and 'w'; and 'and' maps to 'tyronian et' and 'ampersand').

NB This font is only available in regular style, and there are no bold or italic versions.

Sample of BabelStone Englisc at 20 points

Repertoire

The table below lists the Basic Latin characters in the font, and other letters commonly used for writing Old English. The font also supports various accented letters not listed.

Code Point	Character Name	Glyph
U+0021	EXCLAMATION MARK	!
U+0022	QUOTATION MARK	"
U+0023	NUMBER SIGN	#
U+0024	DOLLAR SIGN	$
U+0025	PERCENT SIGN	%
U+0026	AMPERSAND	&
U+0027	APOSTROPHE	'
U+0028	LEFT PARENTHESIS	(
U+0029	RIGHT PARENTHESIS	)
U+002A	ASTERISK	*
U+002B	PLUS SIGN	+
U+002C	COMMA	,
U+002D	HYPHEN-MINUS	-
U+002E	FULL STOP	.
U+002F	SOLIDUS	/
U+0030	DIGIT ZERO	0
U+0031	DIGIT ONE	1
U+0032	DIGIT TWO	2
U+0033	DIGIT THREE	3
U+0034	DIGIT FOUR	4
U+0035	DIGIT FIVE	5
U+0036	DIGIT SIX	6
U+0037	DIGIT SEVEN	7
U+0038	DIGIT EIGHT	8
U+0039	DIGIT NINE	9
U+003A	COLON	:
U+003B	SEMICOLON	;
U+003C	LESS-THAN SIGN	<
U+003D	EQUALS SIGN	=
U+003E	GREATER-THAN SIGN	>
U+003F	QUESTION MARK	?
U+0040	COMMERCIAL AT	@
U+0041	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A	A
U+0042	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER B	B
U+0043	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C	C
U+0044	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D	D
U+0045	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER E	E
U+0046	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER F	F
U+0047	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER G	G
U+0048	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER H	H
U+0049	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I	I
U+004A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER J	J
U+004B	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER K	K
U+004C	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L	L
U+004D	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M	M
U+004E	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER N	N
U+004F	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER O	O
U+0050	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER P	P
U+0051	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Q	Q
U+0052	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R	R
U+0053	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S	S
U+0054	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T	T
U+0055	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER U	U
U+0056	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER V	V
U+0057	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER W	W
U+0058	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X	X
U+0059	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y	Y
U+005A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Z	Z
U+005B	LEFT SQUARE BRACKET	[
U+005C	REVERSE SOLIDUS	\
U+005D	RIGHT SQUARE BRACKET	]
U+005E	CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT	^
U+005F	LOW LINE	_
U+0060	GRAVE ACCENT	`
U+0061	LATIN SMALL LETTER A	a
U+0062	LATIN SMALL LETTER B	b
U+0063	LATIN SMALL LETTER C	c
U+0064	LATIN SMALL LETTER D	d
U+0065	LATIN SMALL LETTER E	e
U+0066	LATIN SMALL LETTER F	f
U+0067	LATIN SMALL LETTER G	g
U+0068	LATIN SMALL LETTER H	h
U+0069	LATIN SMALL LETTER I	i
U+006A	LATIN SMALL LETTER J	j
U+006B	LATIN SMALL LETTER K	k
U+006C	LATIN SMALL LETTER L	l
U+006D	LATIN SMALL LETTER M	m
U+006E	LATIN SMALL LETTER N	n
U+006F	LATIN SMALL LETTER O	o
U+0070	LATIN SMALL LETTER P	p
U+0071	LATIN SMALL LETTER Q	q
U+0072	LATIN SMALL LETTER R	r
U+0073	LATIN SMALL LETTER S	s
U+0074	LATIN SMALL LETTER T	t
U+0075	LATIN SMALL LETTER U	u
U+0076	LATIN SMALL LETTER V	v
U+0077	LATIN SMALL LETTER W	w
U+0078	LATIN SMALL LETTER X	x
U+0079	LATIN SMALL LETTER Y	y
U+007A	LATIN SMALL LETTER Z	z
U+007B	LEFT CURLY BRACKET	{
U+007C	VERTICAL LINE	\|
U+007D	RIGHT CURLY BRACKET	}
U+007E	TILDE	~
U+00C6	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER AE	Æ
U+00D0	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER ETH	Ð
U+00DE	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN	Þ
U+00E6	LATIN SMALL LETTER AE	æ
U+00F0	LATIN SMALL LETTER ETH	ð
U+00FE	LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN	þ
U+01BF	LATIN LETTER WYNN	ƿ
U+01F7	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN	Ƿ
U+204A	TIRONIAN SIGN ET	⁊
U+2E52	TIRONIAN SIGN CAPITAL ET	⹒
U+A764	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE	Ꝥ
U+A765	LATIN SMALL LETTER THORN WITH STROKE	ꝥ

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BabelStone Englisc is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which means you are free to use it for personal or commercial purposes, and to redistribute it by itself or as part of a free or commercial software package, just as long as you do not sell the font on its own. The license also allows you to modify the font in any way you like, as long as the modified font does not use "BabelStone" in its name. Please read the license for details.

For use on your computer or mobile device please download and install the TTF file by clicking on "Download BabelStone Englisc" below. The WOFF and WOFF2 files are for web hosting use only, and are not required by most users.

Download BabelStone Englisc [WOFF, WOFF2] v. 1.000 (2023-06-24)

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