Metroscript
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You need JavaScript enabled and the latest version of Flash Player to see this type sample.Credits
- Designer(s)
- Michael Doret
- Foundry(ies)
- Alphabet Soup Type Founders
- Release Year
- 2007
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Classification
- Script, Rationalized Script
- Original Format
- Digital
- Distributor(s)
- Font Bros., FontShop, MyFonts, Veer
- Tags
- 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, alphabet soup, alternates, american, baseball, brush drawn, connected, connecting, cursive, doret, ligatures, metro, metroscript, retro, script, showcard, sport, swash, swashes, tails, team, vintage
Background
Literally years in the making, Metroscript is an outgrowth of a style of letterform that Michael Doret has used in his design work literally dozens of times, usually for connecting words such as “and the”, “from”, etc. This style has been described as a “baseball” or “sports” script“which is true•€“but its applicablity is really much wider than that.
Created in OpenType, Metroscript is chock full of features that will expand its usability such as; 6 different tail styles with variable lengths; letters that “know” when they’re at the beginning or at the end of a word or following a certain other letter“and change accordingly; plus literally dozens of special characters, swashes, ligatures, accents and foreign characters all fitting together in a way that makes each word seem as if it was lettered by hand.
For more information please download The Metroscript User Manual.
