Many words that existed in Old English did not survive into Modern English. There are also many words in Modern English that bear little or no resemblance in meaning to their Old English etymons. Some linguists estimate that as much as 80 percent of the lexicon of Old English was lost by the end of [...]

Old english fonts are traditionally understood as those that appear distinguished and are written in a formal calligraphic hand. In this post, i’ve branched out from the traditional old english categorization and included some other fonts that look antique (jagged edges and somewhat crooked lettering are reminiscent of manually typeset characters used in printing presses).

Old [...]