Steinweiss Script Light OT
Winner: Typeface Design – Communication Arts Typography Annual 2
The genesis of Steinweiss Script began when Michael Doret was asked by Taschen Publishing to do cover lettering for their huge commerorative edition on the work of Alex Steinweiss. The lettering was to appear to be similar to the famous calligraphic “Scrawl” Steinweiss used on many of the album covers he designed.
While designing this lettering, Michael realized that there was great potential for a font designed in the spirit of that famous “scrawl”. Through Taschen Publishing, he was fortunate enough to be able to contact the Steinweiss family, and get their approval to proceed with his “Steinweiss Script” project. Michael decided that in addition to naming the font “Steinweiss Script” as an homage, that he would donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this font to the man himself: Alex Steinweiss. Read mor e about the background of Steinweiss Script in Steven Heller’s article in Imprint.
Steinweiss Script is a family of fonts in three weights: Light, Medium, and Bold. Additionally, within each weight there are three variations: Simple, Fancy, and Titling. These variations relate to the size/ratio of the caps to the lowercase, the complexity of those caps, and the size of the ascenders/descenders on the lowercase characters. These variations add usefulness to the font, making it accessible not just for headlines, but for longer passages of text as well.
PLEASE NOTE: the three Steinweiss Script fonts are cross-platform fonts which depend to some extent on certain advanced OpenType features, therefore they can be used to their full potential only with programs that support those features.
For a better understanding of its unique features please download The Steinweiss Script Users Guide—available as a PDF download at the bottom of the Gallery section.
Available Product Documentation PDFs:
Steinweiss_UserGuide.pdf
Winner: Typeface Design – Communication Arts Typography Annual 2
The genesis of Steinweiss Script began when Michael Doret was asked by Taschen Publishing to do cover lettering for their huge commerorative edition on the work of Alex Steinweiss. The lettering was to appear to be similar to the famous calligraphic “Scrawl” Steinweiss used on many of the album covers he designed.
While designing this lettering, Michael realized that there was great potential for a font designed in the spirit of that famous “scrawl”. Through Taschen Publishing, he was fortunate enough to be able to contact the Steinweiss family, and get their approval to proceed with his “Steinweiss Script” project. Michael decided that in addition to naming the font “Steinweiss Script” as an homage, that he would donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this font to the man himself: Alex Steinweiss. Read mor e about the background of Steinweiss Script in Steven Heller’s article in Imprint.
Steinweiss Script is a family of fonts in three weights: Light, Medium, and Bold. Additionally, within each weight there are three variations: Simple, Fancy, and Titling. These variations relate to the size/ratio of the caps to the lowercase, the complexity of those caps, and the size of the ascenders/descenders on the lowercase characters. These variations add usefulness to the font, making it accessible not just for headlines, but for longer passages of text as well.
PLEASE NOTE: the three Steinweiss Script fonts are cross-platform fonts which depend to some extent on certain advanced OpenType features, therefore they can be used to their full potential only with programs that support those features.
For a better understanding of its unique features please download The Steinweiss Script Users Guide—available as a PDF download at the bottom of the Gallery section.
Available Product Documentation PDFs:
Steinweiss_UserGuide.pdf
Buy the font: Steinweiss Script Light OT is available in these packages (best values are at the top)
| The Complete Alphabet Soup Font Collection OT | 40 fonts | $560.00 |
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| Steinweiss Script Complete Family OT | 3 fonts | $129.00 |
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| Steinweiss Script Light OT | 1 font | $59.00 |
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Character SetOpenType Features Hover over a feature to learn more. Click a feature to filter Character Set view.- Show All Glyphs
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Access All Alternates This feature makes all variations of a selected character accessible. This serves several purposes: An application may not support the feature by which the desired glyph would normally be accessed; the user may need a glyph outside the context supported by the normal substitution, or the user may not know what feature produces the desired glyph. Since many-to-one substitutions are not covered, ligatures would not appear in this table unless they were variant forms of another ligature.
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Contextual Alternates When available, replaces default glyphs with alternate forms which provide better joining behavior.
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Fractions Replaces figures separated by a slash with 'common' (diagonal) fractions.
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Standard Ligatures Replaces a sequence of glyphs with a single glyph, e.g. 'fi', 'fl'. This feature is enabled by default and cannot currently be disabled.
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Ordinals Replaces default alphabetic glyphs with the corresponding ordinal forms for use after figures.
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Stylistic Alternates Replaces the default forms with stylistic alternates. Note that there may be more than one stylistic alternate for a given character.
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Small Caps This feature turns lowercase characters into small capitals. Forms related to small capitals, such as oldstyle figures, may be included.
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Stylistic Set Stylistic alternatives grouped as sets.
- Stylistic Set 2
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- Stylistic Set 4
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Superscript Replaces lining or oldstyle figures with superior figures (primarily for footnote indication), and replaces lowercase letters with superior letters (primarily for abbreviated French titles).
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Swash Replaces default character glyphs with corresponding swash glyphs. Note that there may be more than one swash alternate for a given character.
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Titling Alts This feature replaces the default glyphs with corresponding forms designed specifically for titling. These may be all-capital and/or larger on the body, and adjusted for viewing at larger sizes.
Font 48135 | Fam 9287