About this typeface:
Michael Doret had been doing lettering similar to his Metroscript style in his design work for many years. With the advent of OpenType technology he realized that he could put together a script font that could do this style justice 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. Mertroscript is suggestive of vintage sports ephemera — especially when tails are added to words — but is also appropriate in virtually any context. It’s many ligatures, swashes, alternates, foreign accented characters and tails — all of which connect seamlessly — set it apart from most other script fonts.
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About the designer:
You’re probably familiar with Michael Doret’s work without even knowing it. If you’ve seen his logo for the NY Knicks or one of his many Time covers then you’re familiar with the power and dynamism he has brought to the art of hand-lettering for many years. But now with the opening of his digital font foundry Alphabet Soup he is excited to have added font design to his list of accomplishments. Check out Doret’s other Alphabet Soup fonts at Veer.
With his letterform/graphic design work Michael is an eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award. in his unique typographic vision he blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. The inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other artifacts of this great land of ours.
This package contains:
Metroscript
Copyright © Michael Doret / Alphabet Soup
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