Birthday
Birthday	$14.95
Birthday Alt
Birthday Alt	$14.95
Birthday Ligatures
Birthday Ligatures One      Birthday Ligatures Two      Birthday Ligatures Three      Birthday Ligatures Four      Birthday Ligatures Five	$26.95 (including 2 other fonts)

Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: January 18th, 2006
Designed by: Rebecca Alaccari
Designed when: 2006
Contained in Categories: Funny, Script
Design owned by: Canada Type
MyFonts Keywords: alternates, artsy, calligraphic, calligraphy, clean, creative, cursive, cute, delicate, fancy, fashionable, feminine, flair, flourished, funny, girly, greetings, hand, handwriting, informal, invitation, ligatures, lively, monoline, party, personable, retro, rounded, sassy, script, soft, swash, teenage, valentine, wild [suggest]

Birthday

What do you imagine the ideal casual invitation font would look like? It has to be cheerful, inviting, legible, creative, and loads of fun. But first and foremost, it has to look like real handwriting. Fonts seeming like real handwriting are always a major task, and although Canada Type already has plenty of fonts that solve the “looks like handwriting” issue in a variety of ways, we're once again raising the bar a little higher with this one.

Birthday is a massive package that crosses the traditional font/handwriting solution of 2-letter ligatures and waltzes into the land of 3-letter combinations. Plenty of them, too! The complete Postscript and True Type versions of Birthday ship with no less than five separate fonts full of nothing but ligatures. And for even more realism, an alternates font is also included in the package, for a total of seven fonts of happy handwriting that can be used anywhere and everywhere personalization is of importance to a layout.

For layout artists with advanced typography tools that take advantage of the power of OpenType, Birthday Pro is a wunderkind. All the individual letter alternates are accessible through the Stylistic Alternates feature, the 2-letter ligatures through the standard Ligatures feature, and the 3-letter ligatures via the Discretionary Ligatures feature (for the technically inclined: this includes a nice liga-to-dlig crossover, where the maximum number of possible ligated letters is automatically chosen at the push of a button).

If you enjoy using OpenType, Birthday Pro is definitely for you. If on the other hand you like your fonts in Postsript or True Type, it is advisable to keep a character map handy while using Birthday. You will need it to take advantage of the many, many alternates and ligatures distributed over the fonts.

The next time someone asks you for the perfect casual invitation font is, look no further. And as usually is with Canada Type, quality fonts are more affordable than ever.

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