Ida Tikhonova

Klothilde is a handwriting font which came to life in one of my doodling sessions (I must admit I still doodle with pen and paper). The idea was to create a font which resembles writing with a quill on paper with exaggerated ball terminals. Sometimes there is too much ink which makes the letters fat and the strokes uneven. The paper soaks the ink resulting in blurred line crossings. The form gets blurry. On the other hand, when the quill runs out of ink the stroke gets thinner looking like the light version of Klothilde. In order to emulate the different looks, I created six fonts with a common skeleton but different appearance which can be altered seamlessly by using the Variable Fonts technology (e.g. in latest Adobe apps or CorelDRAW Graphics Suite) along the Weight and Blurred sliders. But even without, Klothilde can be used even in longer copy. Use it from 18 pt upwards, flush left with tight leading and intersecting ascenders and descenders. Due to extensive manual kerning, it gives your text an even colour.

To my knowledge, Klothilde is one of the first script Variable fonts in different weights.

No, Klothilde’s letters are not connecting. But I added a whole bunch of connecting ligatures which are simply activated by the ligature feature of your app. Even Microsoft Word can do that. Thus Klothilde comes to life, as it should be expected from a handwriting font. In order to add to variety there are additional glyphs for some critical initial and standalone letters. Repeating letter combinations like nn, mm or rr are avoided by replacing the second letter by an alternative form. All features are activated by the standard ligature feature.

Ligatures are available for most European languages, some even in Cyrillic (some special Serbo-Croat letters included and accessible through localization or Style Set 08 features). Romanian comma-accent characters and ligatures are accessible through the OpenType locl feature.

For the topping on the cake, I added an alternate ampersand (stylistic set 1) and asterisk (ss04), an alternate Cyrillic b (ss02) and t (ss03), a few fleurons, arrows and a skull (OpenType feature ornm), fractions (frac feature), circled numbers (ss06) and an interrobang (ss07) which result in exactly 900 glyphs in each of the six fonts. There should be enough to play with. Should you be missing a special character, do give me a hint.

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With 886 glyphs Foda Slab has many ligatures which makes it suitable for headlines and other different graphic contexts.

An Unusual Hero Script

Mervale Script Pro is based on inspiration from the 1940's Fawcett Publications “Mary Marvel” comic. This unusual brush lettered script blends script and serif capitals with a mix of unusual brush strokes to create a lively font that draws attention.

Clean letterforms with an eclectic offbeat flavor in letter stances lends Mervale Script Pro to a unique variety of uses from casual to lightly sophisticated. The stylistic alternates feature adds swash capitals to the mix to offer even more diversity.

See the 5th graphic for a comprehensive character map preview.

OpenType features include:

• A collection of ligatures.
• Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.
• Tabular, Proportional, and Oldstyle figure sets.
• Stylistic Alternates for Caps to Swash Caps conversion.

From Swashes to Standards to Loopy

The Berkshire Pro family began with Berkshire Swash Pro, an alluring semi-sweet typestyle with a bold yet feminine flair to it. But from the beginning, this was always meant to be a trio family. Finally this family is complete with Regular, Loops, and Swash Pro styles.

These delightfully friendly letterforms in each variant lend themselves to many uses, and as a family open up even more possibilities for combining amongst themselves and with other fonts for designs. From romantic intents to chocolate factories.

See the 7th-9th graphics for a comprehensive character map preview.

Opentype features include:

• A collection of ligatures.
• Smallcaps.
• Full set of Inferiors and Superiors for limitless fractions.
• Tabular, Proportional figures for Berkshire Pro, and Oldstyle figure sets for Loops & Swash Pro.