Disclaimer! Work In Progress! See source code. I recently read this wonderful blog post about using 17th Century Dutch fonts on the web. And, because I'm an idiot, I decided to try and build something similar using Shakespeare's first folio as a template. Now, before setting off on a journey, it is worth seeing if [...]
The answer is… I don’t know :-) Maybe both? What do you think would be best?
Ah, difficult, they are two different and incomparable concepts :) As they are now, I think the fonts reach the first goal: give the appearance of an old and used book. Which is cool.
For the second goal maybe there’s no need to go to such lengths as you did, I imagine pictures of how those fonts looked in their time maybe exist(?).