Today’s digital font technology has allowed renowned font designer and calligrapher Hermann Zapf to realize a dream he first had more than fifty years ago: to create a typeface that would come very close...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Gábor Kóthay in Hungary has developed an archaic identity largely based upon lettering from a rare Type Specimen of the Jesuit Academy Press of Tyrnavia (1773). They have developed many baroque style typefaces of...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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In his book, Brushstroke and Freestyle Alphabets, Dan X. Solo called this fabulous fifties face Maidstone Script. Somewhat less willowy than the original, this version is still righteously retro, and takes its name from...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 30, 2024
This childish script by Monotype designer Steve Matteson strikes a great balance between informality and legibility. The TrueType versions have been extensively tuned (hinted) for high legibility at small sizes on screen at a...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified November 4, 2024
Being a lefty makes it challenging to write in cursive. Unlike righthanders who pull the pencil across the page, lefties must push the pencil as they write. As a result, the letterforms created by...
by · Published May 26, 2015
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Outline brush script originally designed for embroidery application. Everett was designed for all media and works best at 24 point and above. Everett requires subjective display kerning and compensation.
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified October 2, 2015
Ronna Penner’s Sketchley is a 2001 winner of ATypI’s bukva:raz! design competition, held recently in Moscow. Inspired by handwriting samples and unable to find a typeface to satisfy her needs, Ms. Penner decided to...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified May 18, 2024
Remember when a coyote was a light-boned rangy member of the canine family and not the name (spelled C-A-O-T-I) of your neighbor’s four year old daughter? When a cricket was a leaping, chirping insect...