# Medieval book art **URL:** \ **Category:** General Questions\ **Tags:** painting-help, how-to-use\ **Created:** [December 7, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185 "2025-12-07T13:33:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/u/recaremo)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/1 "2025-12-07T13:33:27Z")
Hello from germany. As a friend of medieval art - I’m looking for some tipps how to copy the medieval book art. I think Krita could be good starting point. Did anyone of you do some work like this? ![medieval_bookart](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/d/4/d4d4305abfa51328e84bbc8198f405197be5ac3d.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/michelist/32/65826_2.png) [@Michelist](https://krita-artists.org/u/Michelist)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/2 "2025-12-07T14:30:23Z")
🙂 Hello @recaremo, and welcome to the forum! What exactly do you mean with copy: > [@recaremo](#): > > I’m looking for some tipps how to copy the medieval book art. If you want to recreate such works with Krita, using Krita’s brushes and text tool, then of course it will be possible. Depending on the way you’re heading to, your journey can vary in the amount of work needed. In the case that you own, or plan to acquire, fonts for creating works like this, then you will be happy to know that Krita’s currently not-so-good Text Tool is completely rewritten, and that its rewrite comes to its end and many of the new functions can already be tested in action using Krita’s so-called nightly versions, which are pre-release-versions of Krita. Here you can inform yourself about the abilities of Krita’s new Text Tool, which will be something, many state, no other painting software offers. Especially the first post and the last ~30 postings are quite informative in my eyes: > [@Text Tool Thread](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973): > > Hey everyone, This is a thread dedicated to the development of the text tool. The majority of the work discussed in this thread has led to the text tool in 5.3, where you can edit text on canvas and have access to advanced typography features. If you find bugs, please report them to [bugs.kde.org](https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=guided&product=krita&component=tool/text) under the product Krita, in the component Text. Updates I wrote several introductions to text as updates to this thread. Here’s a list of them: [Fonts](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/132)[Open Type Features](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/190)[Font Metrics](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/203)[Style…](https://krita-artists.org/t/text-tool-thread/57973/219) The Krita NEXT-Nightly versions can be found here: > **[Index of /ci-builds/graphics/krita/master](https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/master/)** Michelist ---
**Author:** ![Someonesane](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/someonesane/32/124609_2.png) [@Someonesane](https://krita-artists.org/u/Someonesane)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/3 "2025-12-07T16:04:45Z")
I’d find a font that matches the aesthetic, type the story, and then draw my designs around that, using a crayon-like or fountain pen type of brush preset. Then I’d use Layer Fills and Layer Filters to distress the page. Example attached. ![Old Book 12072025](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/3X/9/4/949feadcbb155ff875cc80a925f3ed5db49865ea.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/u/recaremo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 7:42am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/4 "2025-12-08T07:42:51Z")
That is amazing. That’s just I was looking for. What Font do you use? Is free for download? Do you use some kind of grid or lines in the background? ---
**Author:** ![recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/d26b3c/32.png) [@recaremo](https://krita-artists.org/u/recaremo)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 7:46am UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/5 "2025-12-08T07:46:25Z")
Thanks for your answer. Maybe “copy” is not the correct word. I would more do work like @Someonesane posted here. Excuse my bad english it’s not my native. My post other reason for my post - to find a starting point for my work with Krita. I’ll show the results here next. I use Krita with a Linux Desktop (Ryzen 9, NVidia 4070 TI S, 64 GB RAM) and a Wacom 16. Hope that’s a good base for my work. ---
**Author:** ![Someonesane](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/someonesane/32/124609_2.png) [@Someonesane](https://krita-artists.org/u/Someonesane)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 10:23pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/6 "2025-12-08T22:23:02Z")
I used a Font called Old English Text MT, which I think came with my Windows OS. You can probably find something similar to it on DaFont. I didn’t use a grid, but I did turn the brush mirroring on, to make doing the border a little easier/quicker. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://krita-artists.org/uploads/default/original/1X/e446d8b3077ddf6dfb5b2cd65199c20095b47dcf.png) [@system](https://krita-artists.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2026, 10:23pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/medieval-book-art/152185/7 "2026-01-07T22:23:47Z")
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