I've long been fascinated by the illustrated colophons and initial caps that illuminators of medieval manuscripts attached to their work. Many of these were anthropomorphic and zoömorphic, taking advantage of the unique shapes of letterforms in languages like Latin, German, French and Hebrew to host their distinct and imaginatively illustrated signatures and text decorations. With a nod to my distinguished, if often anonymous illuminator muses, here is the seventh in the series: Garrulous Gothic. These figurative letterforms were based on a font called ‘Schaftstiefel Kaputt‘ created by the contemporary German designer Manfred Klein.