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==Design==

[[Image:Garamond junicode caslon.png|thumb|right|250px|'''A comparison between:''' (1) Adobe Garamond Pro, (2) Junicode, (3) Adobe Caslon Pro]]

1. Adobe Garamond Pro

2. Junicode

3. Adobe Caslon Pro

|alt=Garamond junicode caslon.png]]

The designs of the Junicode roman characters are based on a 17th-century typeface design used at the [[Oxford University Press]], also known as Clarendon Press. Peter Baker based the Junicode roman design on those used in [[George Hickes]]' ''Linguarum Vett. Septentrionalium Thesaurus'' (1703–1705), naming the typeface Junicode ("Junius Unicode") after [[Franciscus Junius (the younger)|Franciscus Junius]], who had commissioned the original typeface used for the Anglo-Saxon texts in that volume, "Pica Saxon".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/archive/OEN40_1.pdf|author=Peter S. Baker|year=2006|title=Typing in Old English since 1967: A Brief History|work=''[[Old English Newsletter]]'' Online|at=Volume 40.1|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://junicode.sourceforge.net/design.html|title=Design and History of Junicode (@ Junicode's SourceForge page)|accessdate=2015-07-14}}</ref> The designs represent an intermediate stage between earlier 16th century typefaces (such as [[Garamond]]) and later 18th century typefaces (such as [[Caslon]]). The Junicode roman character design shares a number of features with these earlier and later typefaces.

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==Origins and uses==

The Junicode font was developed especially for medievalists, due to the need for a font to cover the large number of special Unicode glyphscharacters and ligatures used in medieval [[manuscript]]s. The font has complete support for the [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]] version 1.0, and nearly complete support for version 2.0.

Despite the specialization of Junicode for the needs of medievalists, the font is quite complete and supports a large number of Unicode characters. In the regular style, over 3000 characters are available. This makes Junicode useful for a wide range of languages that utilize the [[Latin alphabet]], including scholarly texts and publications that require special [[diacritics]] not traditionally found in conventional fonts. It exists in regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles, with the regular style having the largest character set. Regular and bold styles have [[small caps]] and all styles have [[Swash (typography)|swash]] alternates, although not a complete set of italic swash capitals.