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Thorns:
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The lower
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Thorns:
how to get them right The lower
case thorn is easy. Start with the letter p, and add an
ascender.
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TYPE
DESIGN
Thorn
and eth
Making thorns
Making
an Eth
Making
an eth
Eth
troubles
The cap thorn can usually be made from the letters I and P.
(Don’t stick the bowl of the letter P on an I. The
right baseline serif of a cap thorn should be as long as it
is on the letter P.)
Scripts have their own rules. The example on the left shows
the letter I with a bowl attached. This is not how a cap
thorn should be made.
The
letter in the middle shows a proper cap thorn. It should
begin with a flourish of the kind that the letters CEG and L
commonly have. Use the smallest, from the letter E: the bowl
doesn’t leave much room. It shouldn’t rise higher
than the lowest part of the flourish. (This one is borrowed
from the letter B, and stretched.)
The cap thorn should have a
descender. If a loop is too much trouble, the upstroke can
be a part of the stem, as it is in the letter on the
right.
