Great story on typography. I've always been a big fan of beautiful lettering. So first off, I thank all the monks and nuns for spending all their lives sitting on hard wooden benches in the library drawing up each letter, swirl, embellishment, and illustration by hand. I often wonder if they had assistant monks who would have to make the ink, gather the pigments, mix the paints, put the newly painted sheets to dry in the sun, stoke the fires in the fire places, bring in the wood, clean up after a long day, and so on. It must have been a humongous effort to produce just one page of illustrative writing.

It is for this reason, the reason that Humanistic Minuscule is a labor of heavenly love, that I hope it will never be digitized. Let it belong to the time when it was created and adored. Let it be mysterious and otherworldly to us, peoples living 500+ years later.

But secondly, I do agree that today's fonts could be greatly expanded on. Granted, Helvetica is cool for its modernity, as is Open Sans. But there is definitely a lot of room for experimentation, especially when it comes to initial letters and so on.

Great story, thank you for sharing.