Capital F · secretary hand

Ff F

Unit 2

Written as a doubled small f: ff at the start of a word is a capital F.

When is it a capital?

A capital F is written ff at the start of a word. Read it as F (ffrancis = Francis); a single f is lower case.

Model letter

McKerrow (1927), fig. 23, no. 1 · public domain

In practice lines

Examples of this form are on their way

Don’t confuse it with

Practise this letter Taught in unit 2: e and s
Coming soon

Other forms of capital F

Model letters: R. B. McKerrow, An Introduction to Bibliography (1927); Jean de Beauchesne & John Baildon, A Booke Containing Divers Sortes of Hands (1570 and 1581); Giovambattista Palatino, Libro nel qual s’insegna a scrivere (1550); and manuscripts in the Folger Shakespeare Library; all public domain. They stand in until Leo’s own model letters are drawn. Secretary letters typeset in Joscelyn by Peter S. Baker (SIL Open Font License).