Script Fonts

Lydian Cursive

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1938-1940
Post category:script

Lydian is Warren Chappell’s almost calligraphic sanserif, designed for ATF in 1938. Lydian Cursive, done by Chappell in 1940, is much freer and more calligraphic. Life is a journey.

Modakshar BT

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:2003
Post category:script

Modakshar was inspired by traditional Indic handwriting scripts which ‘hang’ from a common upper horizontal bar. Adapting this motif to Latin letterforms was challenging. The typeface was first conceived in…

Monterey BT

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1958
Post category:script

Intertype’s reaction to ATF’s Murray Hill.

Murray Hill

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:2020
Post category:script

An original informal script designed for ATF by Emil Klump.

Nuptial

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1952
Post category:script

An informal script designed at Intertype for wedding invitations.

Park Avenue

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1933
Post category:script

The first of the popular American informal scripts designed by R.E. Smith for ATF in 1933.

Piranesi

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1930
Post category:script

An informal script designed for ATF as an italic for his Piranesi by W.T. Sniffin.

Richfont BT

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:2001
Post category:script

Based on Mr. Hubbard's own hand printing, Richfont Medium is an extremely casual design. Actually light in weight, it renders best at 14 point and above. Richfont Light and Bold…

Sketchley BT

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:2000
Post category:script

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,…

Stuyvesant BT

Post author:Bitstreamstaff
Post published:1940
Post category:script

Based on an engravers’ pattern plate, this outline form deriving from an English roundhand was fitted to linecasting matrices by Intertype about 1940.