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- gwern 3y agoAlways fun to see people making their own dropcaps! I haven't seen 'Alde Night Caps' before. Works well in context. Self-advertisement: the reason you don't see many dropcaps like this is that making fonts is a specialized skill. So even if you want to make a design like an old incunabula book, you may be stuck if no one has created the exact dropcap you want. As for custom ones, forget about it. However, I & Said Achmiz have released an approach using generative models, SVG, & JS to let you easily create dropcap sets with hundreds of letters, no knowledge of TTF or OpenType or Bezier curves required: https://gwern.net/dropcap https://gwern.net/dropcap