Modern Grotesque Body
Cordavia Bold Swash + Modern Limited
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Cordavia Bold Swash headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Playful slab serif with heart-dotted i & heart-tipped swashes
Cordavia Bold Swash
Cordavia Bold Swash is a warm, slightly condensed slab serif crowned with decorative canopy swashes, baseline curls, and solid heart i-dots.
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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 accessSwashes/Tails · Ligatures
Best surfaces & mediaSeasonal Apparel · Mug Wraps · Holiday Gift Tags
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Cordavia Bold Swash.
Cordavia Bold Swash is a playful slab serif with heart details: heavy unbracketed slabs, open counters, a small heart replacing the dot on the i and swashes that finish in a heart tip at the entry and exit of a word. The hearts are the design and they close into dots as soon as the face is reduced. It needs roughly 28 mm for the heart and the slab to read, and it is best in two soft inks on white, or one ink plus paper where the hearts print as knockouts.
Romantic · Sturdy · Craft-friendly
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Cordavia Bold Swash with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Cordavia Bold Swash + Winter
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Cordavia Bold Swash’s stroke geometry.
Invitation, menu and place card
A heart-tipped slab gives an informal wedding a printed invitation with a drawn flourish rather than a script. The hearts hold at 28 pt, and two soft inks print the invitation and the menu in one order.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Invitation 130 x 180 mm, names 28 pt with 12 mm swash clearance, details 9/13 pt, 18 mm margins. Menu 120 x 210 mm, header 18 pt, courses 9/12 pt. Place card 90 x 50 mm, name 14 pt, 4 mm margins.
Pre-production check
At 14 pt on a place card the heart tip closes into a comma and the name reads as a typo. Raise place cards to 18 pt, and proof one card before the suite.
Love card, seal label and ribbon band
A heart-tipped slab carries the sentiment in the swash rather than a printed motif. The hearts hold at 26 mm on a card, and two soft inks print the card, the seal and the band in one pass.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Card A6, greeting 26 mm with 10 mm swash clearance, note 8/11 pt, 12 mm margins. Seal label 38 mm round, word 7 mm, 3 mm die margin. Ribbon band 200 x 30 mm, word 9 mm, 5 mm margins.
Pre-production check
A 38 mm seal at 7 mm loses the heart entirely under wax. Use an initial only on the seal, and pour one seal before the batch.
Spring-fair poster, stall card and bag label
A heart-dotted slab reads as a hand-drawn spring poster rather than a modern flyer. The hearts hold at 90 mm on a poster, and two soft inks print the poster and the stall cards in one pass.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Poster A3, word 90 mm with 12 mm swash clearance, details 28 mm, 18 mm margins. Stall card 105 x 75 mm, word 20 mm, 5 mm margins. Bag label 90 x 50 mm, word 16 mm, 5 mm margins.
Pre-production check
On a 90 x 50 mm bag label at 16 mm the hearts close into dots and the word reads as a dotted bar. Raise the label word to 22 mm, and print one label before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Slab Serif · Playful slab serif with heart-dotted i & heart-tipped swashes
- Foundry / creator
- TonisArtStudio
- Ligatures
- Ligatures mentioned in designer listing
- Alternates & swashes
- Stylistic alternates or swashes mentioned
- Language support
- Multilingual character support stated by creator
Creator topic tags (25)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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