Foundry portfolio · Script · Duo · Serif
baletype works the polished end of script and duo. Silken Luxe is smooth and expensive-looking, Vintage Serenade brings a softer retro tone, and the 16 releases favour high finish, moderate contrast and carefully matched companions.
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Luxe scripts often rely on thin hairlines. Print them, or increase the stroke weight slightly before cutting for a decal.
Very slanted calligraphy with broad lower sweeps and fine hairlines
Silken Luxe is a formal calligraphy script with a steep slant, broad lower sweeps and hairlines that thin almost to nothing, drawn so two words build an ornamental diagonal across the plate.
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Compact organic serif paired with a long slanted handwritten script
Vintage Serenade pairs a compact organic serif with a long slanted script, so a card carries a firm printed name and a flowing second line that runs well beyond it on both sides.
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Curly handwritten script with spiral terminals and a light irregular stroke
Crafted Storybook is a curly handwritten script whose letters carry small spirals at the ends, whose weight is light and slightly irregular, and whose baseline drifts, so a phrase reads as an illustrated hand rather than a font.
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Rough serif with italic
Rustic Portrait is a rough serif in warm cream over a sepia photograph of two people on a garden bench: moderate contrast, soft worn serifs and a slight tilt, with the first word in the roman and the second in the same cut, and a tracked line beneath naming the italic and bold.
Slanted archival dip-pen signature script
Vintage Story is an expressive, slanted dip-pen signature script evoking 19th-century ship logs, heirloom postcards, and handwritten letters.
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Fine narrow mixed case with oversized upper and lower loops
Fairy Dreams shows thin black mixed case with tall narrow stems and small serif ends. A large upper loop arches across the first line, and a figure-eight-like extension descends below Dreams, while the light lettering sits on plain cream with swash wording along the sides.
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Swashed retro connected script with a wide underline tail
Starlake is a swashed retro connected script in which the first letter rises into a broad swash, the strokes stay heavy and the word finishes on a wide tail that acts as an underline.
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Fine serif and loose signature duo
Marney Holland pairs a tall high-contrast serif capital cut with a loose thin script: the R curls its leg below the serif line, the script runs light through its joins and a long low exit stroke closes the written line.
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Rough angular display with ligatures
Wild Crimson is a bold rough-edged display in crimson on a textured white sheet: chunky capitals with chopped corners and off-square bowls, some letters replaced by drawn ligature shapes, with a small note above and a ledged note at the left naming the ligatures.
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Hand-drawn display sans
Ransom Wave is a hand-drawn display sans in cream on a muted travel poster: wide caps with slightly irregular strokes, cut terminals and an open R, set over a screen-printed ship, with a block of small caps copy at the left and a two-line signature at the foot.
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Fine copperplate-style swash script
Radiate Script is a copperplate-style script rendered as engraving: champagne-gold hairlines on a kraft ground, circled capitals and flourishes that run the full width of the line, framed by an ornate gold border.
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Whisper-thin high-fashion ligature & architectural serif
Lamire Modern is an ultra-light, tall-statured editorial serif featuring sweeping diagonal ligatures across both uppercase and lowercase.
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Clean sans family shown across weights
Rastive is a clean sans shown in white and lime on a dark ground: one line in a light cut with the last three letters in a very heavy lime cut, a list of eight weight names stacked at the right, and a small copy block at the lower left.
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Chunky slab with retro script duo
Rustic Graytone is a duo in navy and red on cream: a chunky bracketed slab in caps for the first line and a fat retro script with a long tail for the second, with a red seal at the left and two small caption blocks at the foot, so the plate reads as a vintage packaging mark.
Bold vintage baseball script
Nighters Club is a bold vintage script in cream on deep red: connected lowercase strokes with heavy swells, an oversized capital that lifts off the baseline, a long underline swash, and a small gold sub-line, so the pair reads as a mid-century sports team mark.
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Messy handwriting family
Tacky Journal is a messy handwriting family in black on a photographed notepad: three weights from light to bold, narrow letters with uneven baselines, tall ascenders and blunt terminals, with small arrows naming each weight in orange and a note about the natural-look features beneath.
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