Pilgrim Font Test

This is a test I did of my computer font, Pilgrim, based on the handwriting of William Bradford, governor of Plymouth Colony.

As you see, I made a few transcription errors. I substituted John Tillie's name for Edward's, from the paragraph below, which begins the same way. I changed "liveing" into the more modern "living". I wrote "sent" starting with a final "s" instead of the long "s" (which looks like an "f" without the crossbar). And so on. But I think it shows the intended result.

Being a computer font, my version lacks the variation in letter shape, size, spacing, and orientation of the pen-and-ink original, and lacks the stroke-width and fuzziness effects of the ink soaking into the paper. Some of this could be added with extensive PostScript editing of the font, but I decided against doing the necessary research and additional work that would require....