Helen Serif designed by Laura Mocellin
HELEN SERIF
Handles Helen Serif is my new ibrid font, which was developed from Galaxy Copernicus font.
Metrics
Typographic features
A
Rounded finial
v
Rounded finial
Horizontal thin crossbar
Ff KRQ Moderate stroke contrast
Bracketed ball-shaped serif
Leg disconnected to the stem
Legs connected to the stem
acgs Open counters with moderate aperture
ph
Short ascender
Short discender
oe
Diagonal stress with positive stress angle (Old Style inclination of the axis)
Uppercase letters
Aa Bb Lowercase letters
Cc Kk Ss Dd Ll Tt Ee Mm Uu Ff Nn Vv Gg Oo Yy Hh Pp Xx Ii Qq Yy Jj Rr Zz
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Numbers
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Diacritics -Questa mattina è foriera di una pace che rattrista; il sole pel dolore non mostrerà la sua faccia. Andiamo via di qui, a ragionare ancora di questi dolorosi avvenimenti; a qualcuno sarà perdonato ed altri sarà punito; poiché non ci fu mai storia più pietosa di questa di Giulietta e del suo Romeo.-
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24 pt
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE
12/14.5 pt
In 1593 London, William Shakespeare is a sometime player in the Lord Chamberlain‘s Men and poor playwright for Philip Henslowe, owner of The Rose Theatre. Shakespeare is working on a new comedy, Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate‘s Daughter. Suffering from writer‘s block, he has barely begun the play, and is further distracted by attempts both to seduce Rosaline, the mistress of Richard Burbage, owner of the rival Curtain Theatre and to convince Burbage to buy the play from Henslowe. Shakespeare receives helpful advice on his play from rival playwright Christopher 'Kit‘ Marlowe, but becomes despondent when he learns Rosaline is sleeping with Edmund Tilney, the powerful Master of Revels. Henslowe, who is in debt to the ruthless moneylender Fennyman and in desperate need for a new play, begins auditions anyway. Viola de Lesseps, the daughter of a wealthy merchant, who has seen Shakespeare‘s plays at court, disguises herself as a man named Thomas Kent to audition. „He“ gains Shakespeare‘s interest when he auditions with a speech from Two Gentlemen of Verona after a series of actors bore him by reciting Christopher Marlowe, but when Shakespeare questions her, Viola runs away in fear of being discovered.
8/9,5 pt
Shakespeare pursues Kent to Viola‘s house and leaves a note with the nurse, asking Thomas Kent to begin rehearsals at the Rose. He sneaks into the house with the minstrels playing that night at the ball, where Viola‘s parents are arranging her betrothal to Lord Wessex, an impoverished aristocrat. While dancing with Viola, Shakespeare is struck speechless, but is forcibly ejected by Wessex. Wessex also asks Will‘s name, to which he replies that he is Christopher Marlowe after Wessex threatens to kill him. Shakespeare sneaks into Viola‘s garden, finding her on her balcony, where they briefly confess their mutual attraction to each other before he is discovered by her nurse and flees.Inspired by Viola, Shakespeare writes quickly, completely transforming the play into what will become Romeo and Juliet. Rehearsals begin, with „Thomas Kent“ as Romeo, the leading tragedian Ned Alleyn as Mercutio and the stagestruck Fennyman given a small role as the Apothocary. Shakespeare soon discovers Viola‘s true identity, and they begin a secret affair.Viola is summoned to court to receive approval for her proposed marriage to Lord Wessex.
Following her wedding, Viola learns that the play will be performed that day, and runs away to the Curtain. Planning to watch with the crowd, Viola overhears that the boy playing Juliet cannot perform, his voice having broken overnight, and Henslowe asks her to replace him. She plays Juliet to Shakespeare‘s Romeo to an enthralled audience. Master Tilney arrives to arrest everyone for indecency due to Viola‘s presence, but the Queen reveals herself having been in attendance and restrains Tilney, instead asserting that Kent‘s resemblance to a woman is, indeed, remarkable. However, even a queen is powerless to end a lawful marriage, and she orders Kent to „fetch“ Viola because she must sail with Wessex to the Colony of Virginia. The Queen also tells Wessex, who followed Viola to the theatre, that Romeo and Juliet has won the bet for Shakespeare, and has Kent deliver his 50 with instructions to write something „a little more cheerful next time, for Twelfth Night“.Viola and Shakespeare say their goodbyes, and he vows to immortalise her, as he imagines the beginning of Twelfth Night, in character as a man after a voyage to a strange land.
“thus with a kiss I die„ “thus with a kiss I die„
34/41 pt
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“thus with a kiss I die„
26/32 pt
“thus with a kiss I die„
22/27 pt
“thus with a kiss I die„
18/20 pt
“thus with a kiss I die„
14/17 pt
“thus with a kiss I die„
10/12 pt
“thus with a kiss I die„
6/8 pt
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