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Samples of Calligraphic Script typefaces Typeface name Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 American Scribe: AMS Euler Designer: Hermann Zapf, Donald Knuth: Apple Chancery Designer: Kris Holmes: Brush Script Designer: Robert E. Smith : Cézanne Designer: Michael Want, Richard Kegler: Coronet Designer: R. Hunter Middleton: Declaration Script: Declare ...
Brush Script is a casual connecting script typeface designed in 1942 by Robert E. Smith for the American Type Founders (ATF). The face exhibits an exuberant graphic stroke emulating the look of handwritten written letters with an ink brush. Lowercase letters are deliberately irregular to further affect the look of handwritten text. The typeface ...
"Optima nova" is a redesign of the original font family, designed by Hermann Zapf and Linotype GmbH type director Akira Kobayashi. [15] [16] The new family contains seven font weights, adding light, demi, and heavy font weights, but removing extra black weight. Medium weight is readjusted to between medium and bold weights in the old family scale.
Cursive is an example of a casual script. Caflisch Script is an example of a casual script. Script typefaces are based on the varied and often fluid stroke created by handwriting. [1] [2] They are generally used for display or trade printing, rather than for extended body text in the Latin alphabet.
Duplicating machines were the predecessors of modern document-reproduction technology. They have now been replaced by digital duplicators, scanners , laser printers , and photocopiers , but for many years they were the primary means of reproducing documents for limited-run distribution.
Typographers are concerned with legibility insofar as it is their job to select the correct font to use. Brush script is an example of a font containing many characters that might be difficult to distinguish. The selection of cases influences the legibility of typography because using only uppercase letters (all-caps) reduces legibility.
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A Berthold Diatype machine A Diatronic plate, showing Futura As a typefounder, Berthold had no background in producing cold type machinery until the introduction of the Diatype in 1958. The Diatype was a relatively small desktop-sized headline-setting device (i.e. not intended for continuous justified text ), based on a glass disc font master ...