Editing Junicode (section)

==Origins and uses==
T‌he Junicode font was developed especially for medievalists, due to the need for a font to cover the large number of special characters and ligatures used in medieval [[manuscript]]s. T‌he font has complete support for the [[Medieval Unicode Font Initiative]] version 4.0 in the regular and italic faces.

Despite the specialization of Junicode for the needs of medievalists, the font is quite complete and supports a large number of Unicode characters. In the regular style, over 3000 characters are available. T‌his makes Junicode useful for a wide range of languages that utilize the [[Latin alphabet]], including scholarly texts and publications that require special [[diacritics]] not traditionally found in conventional fonts. It exists in regular, italic, bold and bold italic styles, with the regular style having the largest character set. Regular and bold styles have [[small caps]] and all styles have [[Swash (typography)|swash]] alternates, although not a complete set of italic swash capitals.

Junicode has a very wide linespacing in many applications due to its numerous tall characters with stacked diacritics.