Greg Stanton
SolSionnach said:I still think he wasn't referring to the ace/cups - perhaps you can persuade me that that is the case?
Well, no, see my post above. Huson was most definitely referring to where the holy water is kept — the Ace of cups looks exactly like a Gothic font — the kind you would find in a cathedral.
Using "font" to refer to a style of lettering is a modern corruption of the word. It means "a specific size and style of a type" (usually lead), never just the name of the typeface itself.
Besides, "Gothic" in typography does not refer to those dark, fancy, olde-English styles of lettering that look like formal calligraphy -- that is called "Blackletter". "Gothic", referring to type, means modern sans-serif. Seriously.