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Typographic Tip of the Month from Linotype’s Type Director Akira Kobayashi!
August 2006: Use a typeface’s swash characters for design variation
Many typefaces are equipped with alternate swash characters that are intended to act as a further element in a designer’s tool kit. Yet swashes – elaborate and flourished letters for decorative initials – are best situated at the beginning or end of words or [...]
Gaius is a beautiful script face with a nice relationship between the broad-edged pen and the proportions of the letterforms. It is very flexible and gives a personal touch due to its various alternate fonts with swash beginners, ending and ligature letterforms. Like Zapfino from Hermann Zapf, Gaius offers a great variety and makes the text more personal and readable.
Linotype Gaius is a trademark of Linotype GmbH and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
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