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Dana Library Hand
Version 1.0, August 2, 2017

Dana Library Hand is an OpenType font created by Margo Burns, margoburns@gmail.com

Dana Library Hand is inspired by a recommended penmanship style for librarians to use when writing out card catalogue cards, and closely resembles the style of penmanship I learned in grade school in northern Vermont in the early 1960s. The base sample, see primerlibrary00danarich_page71.png, came from the facsimile of the Disjoined Hand on page 71 of the book “Library Primer” by John Cotton Dana, published in 1899, a public domain book which is available at https://archive.org/details/primerlibrary00danarich  

It has Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic styles.  

There are 650 glyphs in the font. In addition to English, the font is designed for use with Catalán, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Old English, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish, including glyphs and letters with diacritics compatible with these languages.  

The font includes Old Style alternates for numbers, small caps, superscript & subscript numeral glyphs, some alternate glyphs (EMUW agqt 01234789), Unicode Roman numerals, discretionary ligatures for half, quarters, & eighths, and an assortment of Unicode non-alphanumeric glyphs that interested me.  Please refer to the PDF document in this release folder for the complete inventory of glyphs and their Unicode code points: Dana Library Hand Glyph Inventory - version 1.0.pdf

To the extent possible under law, the designer has dedicated all copyright and related and neighboring rights to this font to the public domain worldwide. This font is distributed without any warranty. You can copy, modify, and distribute the font, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. 

This font is entirely free and can be downloaded at: http://margoburns.com/fonts

Attribution would be appreciated, especially if someone likes my font and wants to see what else I’ve done. If you distribute a version of the font with changes you've made, please be kind enough to include a README file that explains that. 

Enjoy!

Margo