The image above uses the fonts from the University of Virginia and can be found here
Features:
- round shape of d
- f that extends below the baseline instead of sitting on top of it
- insular g, with more of a base before it descends
- dotless i
- r that extends below the baseline
- three shapes for s, insular long s and the high s are more common
- t that does not extend above the cross-stroke
- ƿ ("wynn") usually has been translated as w in modern works.
- y is dotted, and the more angular one is used
Some letters that we know now, I just haven't been able to find. But, as Professor Peter Baker points out in the book "Introduction to Old English"; "Old English has no use for q or z. J and v do not have the status of spearate letters but are occasional variant shapes of i and u (more common in roman numbers than elsewhere). Old English scribes used k rarely"
Isaac
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