Lovelace Script Font

Lovelace Script

Font

Lovelace Script

Author

Zetafonts

Fonts

2

Added

May 11, 2019

Description

Author's note

The font here is for personal/non-commercial use only. To download the full font family (all weights, characters, and numbers) and acquire the commercial license, please visit our website at http://www.zetafonts.com/lovelace

For more information about our licenses, please visit http://www.zetafonts.com/licensing

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Designed by Cosimo Lorenzo Pancini and Andrea Tartarelli with Maria Chiara Fantini, Lovelace is Zetafonts' homage to the tradition of 19th-century Old Style typography - a revival of Renaissance hand-lettered shapes driven by the desire to create a less formal and more friendly alternative to Bodonian serifs. While taking inspiration from the letter shapes created by Pheimester or Alexander Kay, with their calligraphic curves and heavy angled serifs that influenced Benguiat and Goudys' typefaces in the 70s, we also tried to add elegance and contrast by following another 19th-century revival style: the Elzevir.

This digital homage to Victorian typography, aptly named after the algorist daughter of Lord Byron, is developed in two optical sizes, both in a six-weight range from extralight to extrabold. The text variant offers maximum readability thanks to the generous x-height and screen-friendly design, while the display variant excels in the sharp contrast and thin details needed for editorial and large-size titling use. The italics, strongly influenced by calligraphy, have been complemented with a display script family, including luscious swashes and connected lowercase letters, lovingly designed by Zetafont's in-house calligrapher.

All thirty weights of Lovelace cover over 200 languages that use Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek alphabets, and include advanced OpenType features such as Stylistic Alternates, Standard and Discretionary Ligatures, Positional Numerals, Small Caps, and Case Sensitive Forms.