Floridian Script Alternatives

Designed by Intertype's design group under the direction of Edwin W. Shaar in about 1952, Nuptial Script is an informal face designed especially for wedding invitations. Ornate without being fussy, Nuptial Script is a welcome alternative to more commonly used alternatives.Nuptial Script's letterforms were influenced both by English copperplate hands and Italian calligraphic swash capitals.

Bickley Script was designed by Alan Meeks in 1986 and is based on the handwriting forms popular at the end of the 19th century. The flowery capitals contrast beautifully with the delicate and reserved lower case letters, fit perfectly together and enhance the handwritten character of the font. Bickley Script looks as though it were written with a fine tipped pen and has an elegant, nostalgic... Read More

Coronet was designed by type artist Robert Hunter Middleton and it was released by the Ludlow type foundry in 1937. This calligraphic typeface is one of the early attempts to produce a modern calligraphy. Robert Hunter Middleton used baroque models and added contemporary elements to them. Coronet has clear strokes with little ornamentation in its capitals and has a reduced x-height, as do... Read More

FF Ropsen Script was created in 1999 from various handwriting sources. Early versions were used in the dialog boxes of schoolbooks that the typeface’s designer was laying out at the time. Over several months, the typeface was refined until a definitive concept was reached: combining the traits of hand-written characters with the framework of a versatile text face, which would work large as well... Read More

Kaufmann font was designed in 1936 for the American Type Founders by Max R. Kaufmann, a letterer, typographer, and one-time art director for McCalls magazine. Kaufmann is a connecting script typeface with a smooth, slightly whimsical look. Its monoweight is unusual in a script type but allows for a nice texture on the page when it is combined with sans serif text type. The bold Kaufmann is fine... Read More

The name “Schulschrift” that marks the FF Schulschrift typefaces is German for “school writing.” The family is based on three handwriting norms presently taught in German elementary schools by the German Ministry of Culture and Education. Historically, the three norms developed over a rather long stretch of time, and are the product of several attempts to make German handwriting into a form... Read More