The look of language altered dramatically around the year 1800, profoundly transforming the experience of reading. The long-s character was abandoned, spelling became standardized, and tech innovation produced a new clarity of typography. The Auld English typeface addresses this great disruption, straddling the divide and transporting the reader back to a time before that, with three unique features—
- Alternate glyphs that create a random “analog” effect mimicking antique letterpress printing of body text (professional fonts),
- Default long‑s coded according to the conventions of the 17th and early 18th centuries (Spell fonts), and, most remarkably,
- Mock Tudor transliteration of English text (Spell fonts).
