Diane Script™

from GroupType

Diane Script™ is a GroupType font family with 2 styles priced from $29.00.

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Diane Script

Diane Script

$29.00

Diane Script Premiere

Diane Script Premiere

$29.00

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Design Credits

First seen on MyFonts: December 23rd, 2008
Designed by: Roger Excoffon, Mark Simonson
Designed when: 2008
Contained in Categories: Decorative & Display, Engraved, Script
Design owned by: GroupType
MyFonts Keywords: 1950s, birth, calligraphic, calligraphy, certificate, child writing, connected, cool, correspondence, cosmetics, creative, crop, curly, cursive, decorative, delicate, dynamic, elegant, engraving, European, exotic, fancy, fashionable, feminine, festive, flair, free-form, French, graceful, greetings, hand, humanist, informal, ink, invitation, irregular, italic, menus, movie, movie credits, music, natural, old-style numerals, oldstyle, pen, retro, revival, sassy, scrap, scrapbook, scribe, script, swash, swashes, unusual, vacation, vintage, wedding, wine, Xmas

Diane Script

In 1995, FontHaus came upon a rare opportunity to create a revival of Aries, a little known and previously unavailable typeface by the legendary Eric Gill. Discovering a lost typeface by one of the major designers of the 20th Century, was the discovery of a buried treasure, and being the first type company to release it was an honor.

Thirteen years later, FontHaus came across another little known typeface treasure: Diane. Designed by the legendary French designer Roger Excoffon in 1956, this remarkable script has never been faithfully recreated until now. In close collaboration with Mark Simonson, FontHaus and Mr. Simonson painstakingly researched rare type books, publications, European metal type services, and period showings from the United States, England, Germany and from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Finding full specimens of the font turned out to be quite a challenge. In most cases, only the caps and lowercase were shown. Furthermore, the more we researched Diane, many curious facts came to light. The caps in earlier specimens of Diane are completely different from specimens published later, suggesting that the face was redesigned at some point, perhaps in the mid-1960s. So we are left with two different sets of caps. The original had very elaborate, swirly strokes, very characteristic of Excoffon¹s gestural designs for posters and logos. Later on, these appear to have been replaced by a set of simpler, more traditional script caps. The original caps are criticized in one source Mark found (Practical Handbook on Display Typefaces, 1959) as being “exquisite” but “not highly legible”. Perhaps this is what led to the simpler caps being introduced. Nevertheless, FontHaus’s release includes not only both sets of caps, but a range of alternates and a number of new characters not originally available such as the Euro, and a magnificent alternate Ampersand to name a few.

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