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Metroscript

Metroscript™

by Alphabet Soup
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Complete family of 5 fonts: $99.00
Metroscript Font Family was designed by Michael Doret and published by Alphabet Soup. Metroscript contains 5 styles and family package options.

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Metroscript Complete

5 fonts

Best Value!

  • Metroscript Metroscript

  • Metroscript Alt Metroscript Alt

  • Metroscript Lig Metroscript Lig

  • Metroscript Swash Metroscript Swash

  • Metroscript Tails Metroscript Tails

Per style:

$19.80

Pack of 5 styles:

$99.00

About Metroscript Font Family


Michael Doret had been doing lettering in styles similar to Metroscript in his design work for many years, but with the advent of OpenType technology he realized 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 virtually any context. Its many ligatures, swashes, alternates, foreign accented characters and tails—all of which connect seamlessly—set it apart from most other script fonts. For a better understanding of its unique features please download The Metroscript User Manual from the Gallery section. All the above features are accessible from Metroscript’s OpenType font. Also included in the same package is a folder of five Metroscript fonts specifically designed for those who only have applications that are not OpenType compatible. By installing the fonts from this folder instead of the OpenType folder, anyone will be able to access all of Metroscript’s unique features. If you like the Metroscript style, you're sure to love the recently released Dynascript. You also might want to check out the award-winning Deliscript, launched in 2009. PLEASE NOTE: When setting Metroscript one should ALWAYS select the “Standard Ligatures" and “Contextual Alternates” buttons in your OpenType palette. See the “Read Me First!” file in the Gallery section.

Designers: Michael Doret

Publisher: Alphabet Soup

Foundry: Alphabet Soup

Design Owner: Alphabet Soup

MyFonts debut: Mar 19, 2008

Metroscript™ is a trademark of Alphabet Soup.

About Alphabet Soup

For most of his career Michael Doret has been well known as a letterforms artist and designer whose work has overlapped the areas of lettering, illustration and graphic design. Although the work always involved lettering, it was a very different discipline from the world of font design. Recently he expanded his letterforms work into that area under the name "Alphabet Soup Type Founders". Having been a letterforms artist for many years, he believes that he brings a very different perspective to the art of font design from most other foundries. He's now bringing these years of experience of creating art with letterforms to bear on his font design efforts, so that with each new font released he's pushing the envelope and coming up with something new, or a novel twist on the familiar.

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