"With hollow feet and harlequin hats"

Entomologist and typography enthusiast Tere Schultz has published a two-part illustrated series of blog posts exploring the origins of Tuscan typefaces. As MetaFilter tells it, the work examines the style's characteristic bifurcated or trifurcated serifs and provides various examples of vernacular Tuscan lettering.

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