Ascender fantasies

[Koen G]

There are only a few images of You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. offered by the library website, and many of those feature some kind of decoration in ascenders and descenders. I know that these are relatively common, but one of them struck me as somewhat similar in effect as some of the VM's more fanciful ascenders. This is what I mean:

   

So how common are these doodles? Do they often look like the VM ones?