Drawing quires of a manuscript

michele casanova

I'm doing some testing for a font that might be useful for visualizing the physical structure of manuscripts (something like VCEditor).

Given a manuscript quire, the curve for a folio might need to descend above the baseline (in the image, each horizontal line corresponds to one line of text). I'll also create a vertical element to connect these curves, but I'm interested in whether a vertical position of ±6000 would be a problem (the font has 1000 units per eM).

If I actually create the font, I plan to call it "Squinternato", which in Italian means both lunatic (for people) and broken down into quires (for books or manuscripts)

michele casanova

In the unlikely event that anyone is interested in this experiment, the font is available here: https://github.com/m-casanova/Squinternato

The metrics are compatible with EB Garamond/Garamontio.