Michael Doret had been doing lettering in styles similar to Metroscript in his design work for many years. But only with the advent of OpenType technology did he realize that he could actually put together a script font that would finally do justice to this style, and be almost indistinguishable from hand-lettering.

There was no one single inspiration for Metroscript: rather it is an amalgam of many different scripts that were popular hand-lettered styles between the 1920s and the 1950s. Metroscript is suggestive of vintage sports ephemera—especially when tails are added to words—but is also appropriate in many other contexts. It’s many ligatures, swashes, alternates, foreign accented characters and tails—all of which connect seamlessly—set it apart from most other script fonts. In 2009, Metroscript’s sibling font Deliscript was launched.