Editorial Serif Anchor
Antique Broken + Brenco
Anchors Antique Broken's fluid strokes with crisp Roman proportions on wedding suites, headers and packaging.
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Handwritten display with high contrast and broken strokes
Antique Broken
Antique Broken is a handwritten display alphabet in which the strokes swell to heavy dark shapes and then break into thin lines, so a word reads as drawn with a broad nib that lifted between strokes.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Weld or Unite overlapping script joins into one continuous vector path before sending to the blade.
Plotter & output verdictWeld Joins Before Cutting
Recommended minimum scale1.10 in+ x-height on vinyl
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaSeasonal Apparel · Mug Wraps · Holiday Gift Tags
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Antique Broken.
The capital A is drawn as a heavy diagonal with a thin crossbar that does not quite meet, and every letter after it repeats that broken logic: the n keeps a heavy left stem and a thin right one, the t is crossed by a hairline, the q drops a heavy descender and the e closes with a stroke that stops short. The contrast is high and the joins are deliberately imperfect, which is what gives the phrase its antique, hand-drawn quality rather than the smoothness of a modern didone. The counters stay open because the thin strokes are generous enough to read at 30 pt, and the baseline is level. The pale ground, the black ink and the two tracked captions above and below are presentation; the lettering is the two words.
Contrasted · Broken · Drawn
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Antique Broken with grounded secondary typography.
Clean Subline & Body Sans
Antique Broken + Inkora
Keeps small-scale dates, URLs, nutrition facts and care instructions crisp and legible below script titles.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Antique Broken’s stroke geometry.
Title page for an illustrated book
The contrasted broken strokes give a title page an antique voice without reaching for an old-style serif, and the open counters keep the title readable at 40 pt.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the title at 40 pt on an A5 title page, set the author in a small caps serif at 10 pt, and leave 22 mm between the title line and the imprint at the foot.
Pre-production check
Hairline strokes under 0.15 mm drop out on uncoated stock; print the title page on the actual paper and thicken the thin strokes rather than the heavy ones.
Card front for a seasonal greeting
The hand-drawn contrast suits a period holiday card, and the broken joins keep the greeting from looking like a modern script at 30 pt.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the greeting at 30 pt on a 148 by 105 mm card, set the sender in a 7 pt sans at the foot, and leave 16 mm of margin so the thin strokes stay inside the trim.
Pre-production check
A broken stroke printed at 30 pt can read as a printing fault; check the proof at final size and keep the breaks deliberate and consistent.
Sign for a period-styled wedding
The antique drawing suits a venue dressed in period style, and the heavy-to-thin contrast reads at a distance on a large board.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the greeting at 11 cm on a 700 by 500 mm board, set both names at 6 cm beneath, and leave 12 cm of margin so the thin strokes stay inside the frame.
Pre-production check
Painting a thin stroke neatly on a board takes a steady liner; mask the hairlines with tape and check one letter before doing the rest.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Handwritten · Handwritten display with high contrast and broken strokes
- Foundry / creator
- Yarman (7NTypes)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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