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I choose violence (thelemmy.club)
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[-] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago

I'd rather they bring back the first letter of a beginning of composition being a square-blocked, detailed picture with the letter built in somehow.

[-] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

It's called "illuminated manuscript".

The drop cap is pretty much all that's left of it in modern typesetting.

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