hoax // the desk of the chairman of the tortured poets department
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i just wanted you to know that this is me trying
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Kaixo👋
Your Blog ist amazing🥳🌼
Now my question
Do you know the name of this "Basque font" ? Whenever I was out traveling in Euskal Herria, I noticed that restaurants and shops had this special font hanging outside and I always wondered where it came from and what it was called.
Kaixo!! And eskerrik asko!
Interesting question! Actually, there's not a single Basque font, but many! Why?
Because as far as we know, Basque tradition was an oral one: people wrote mostly just on tombstones. Every artisan wrote differently: with thicker or thiner letters, more decorated or less, and then they would teach their children to keep the family business. Even the mistakes at drawing the letters were passed on!
In the 19th century and early 20th century, Basque nationalists and ethusiasts noticed how unique these fonts were, and started collecting them from the tombs to create whole alphabets and reclaim a popular and original art that was dying.
That's why, although all of them have a very distinctive Basque vibe, there's a great variety of Basque fonts:
You can download some of them HERE and HERE.
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my tears ricochet - taylor swift
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Old English Customs by Roy Christian (1972).
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