Henri Abraham Chatelain was a cartographer and publisher of the famous Atlas Historique, ou Nouvelle Introduction a L'Histoire, a world atlas released between 1705 and 1732 in Amsterdam.

A few years ago, at an antique book shop in London, I bought a page from Chatelain’s atlas—a page covering the Near East, India, the Indian Ocean—that had a particularly alluring, oblique handlettering style. The text is in French, which gave me plenty of samples of diacritics and accented characters.

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The titles struck me as handsome -- the titles and captions and place labels on a page I have of Henri Abraham Chatelain’s Atlas Historique. I'd already modeled Antiquarian Scribe after the neat, slanted penmanship used in the body text of Chatelain’s famous old world atlas; now I felt compelled to digitize this legible roman handlettering, as well.

The letterforms are strong and handsome. They've got a certain deft, organic character. A personality. I can't fully explain it. But this antique alphabet seems suitable for many applications.

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Scribe carries 6 mono-line animation ready fonts that are a perfect pick when you need to animate hand written text. Select a desired font, enter font size, fill in the text and hit the button - you'll get a shape layer that contains all the letters.

Scribe carries 6 mono-line animation ready fonts that are a perfect pick when you need to animate hand written text. Select a desired font, enter font size, fill in the text and hit the button - you'll get a shape layer that contains all the letters.

Scribe carries 6 mono-line animation ready fonts that are a perfect pick when you need to animate hand written text. Select a desired font, enter font size, fill in the text and hit the button - you'll get a shape layer that contains all the letters.