Digitalizacja karakteru ukośnego Jana Januszowskiego - studium procesu

The article concerns the revitalization of the sixteenth-century typeface and its digitalization into a computer font. Research on historical prints in which Nowy Karakter Polski occurs is presented. The paper describes main problems of design process related to the reconstruction of characters from historical prints, and the addition of new glyphs necessary in the character set of modern font. A significant part of the design work concerned decorative alternate letters.