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Apricot™ from Canada Type Apricot™ is a Canada Type font family with 4 styles priced from $24.95. Click the Purchase Options button below to view pricing and availability information. |
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Design Credits
First seen on MyFonts: August 22nd, 2005
Designed by: A. R. Bosco, Rebecca Alaccari
Designed when: 2005
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Script
Design owned by: Canada Type
Originally created by: Kingsley/ATF
MyFonts Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, alternates, American, artsy, calligraphic, calligraphy, clean, cute, decorative, fairytale, feminine, flair, girl, girlie, girly, greetings, hand, invitation, ligatures, monoline, party, poetry, poster, retro, round script, script, script sans, soft, upright, upright script, valentine, web graphics
Apricot
A. R. Bosco made Romany for ATF in 1934, when there was much demand for script types in advertising and publishing. It was the high times of Speedball lettering, and a casual script in that fashion was naturally very welcome. It became an instant hit and was used widely for a good part of the 1930s and 1940s.
Apricot is not only a revival of Bosco’s work, but also a major expansion of it. It contains very effective solutions to the many problems presented by the original metal type, which had to always be tracked too wide because of the forms of some of its letters. Solving these problems was not an easy task. A comprehensive set of alternates was designed to give the user the ability to replace some forms in certain uses, and a large set of two-, three-, and even four-letter ligatures was added to solve the awkwardness of some of the more common letter pairings. The resulting work is quite delightful, especially for those who like to take advantage of OpenType technology.
Apricot is the rarest kind of script in digital type these days, the kind that is upright, round, bold, feminine, and distinctly young in appearance. A birthday cake for a teenage girl can certainly benefit from these letters. So can greeting cards, family show posters, diary covers, party invitations, women’s shirts, toy packaging, celebration literature, and almost anything that needs that special touch of shiny happy youth.
Apricot is available in all common font formats. The Postscript and True Type versions come in 4 fonts, which include one for alternates and two for ligatures alongside the main font. The OpenType version is one font that contains more than 380 glyphs and all the necessary programming for the palettes of OpenType-supporting applications.
If you liked Canada Type’s hugely popular font Dominique, you will love Apricot.
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