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Original specimen by HansCo

Fine calligraphy with heart swashes

Madelyn Heart

Madelyn Heart is a fine calligraphy in black on a watercolour ground: hairline joins, tall loops, and a set of drawn heart swashes, each a small heart held between two curls, used to join or finish a line.

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At-a-glance maker compatibility

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 accessPUA Encoded · Swashes/Tails
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsCricut Design Space · Silhouette Studio · Canva Pro · Illustrator

Visual anatomy & craft review

Letterform structure
of Madelyn Heart.

The specimen shows the script twice: Madelyn set small with a heart swash on either side, and heart ❤ swash set large with a big drawn heart between the two words, which demonstrates that the ornament is a separate element rather than a ligature inside the alphabet. The lettering itself is a formal calligraphy: the M opens with a tall loop, the a and the d are narrow, the l and the h rise as hairlines and the y drops a fine descender, with a soft swell on the downstrokes and a light slant. A row of twelve swash variants runs along the foot of the sheet, which is the practical detail a buyer needs before buying a decorative set. The ground is a pink watercolour with leaves at the corners. Madelyn Heart suits wedding stationery, cards and packaging that want a drawn ornament rather than a border.

A thin calligraphy joined by hearts

Two-font hierarchy recipes

Suggested font
pairings.

Tested contrast partners — pairing Madelyn Heart with grounded secondary typography.

Editorial Serif AnchorSerif
Original Auretha preview by Glyphonic

Madelyn Heart + Auretha

Anchors Madelyn Heart's fluid strokes with crisp Roman proportions on wedding suites, headers and packaging.

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Clean Subline & Body SansSans serif
Original Nyxar preview by dimukhi

Madelyn Heart + Nyxar

Keeps small-scale dates, URLs, nutrition facts and care instructions crisp and legible below script titles.

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Practical applications

Project & layout
blueprints.

Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Madelyn Heart’s stroke geometry.

Valentine

Front of a Valentine card

A heart swash does the ornament for a card in one element, and the fine script keeps the message from looking like a poster.

Hierarchy & layout recipe

Print a 120 by 120 mm square card: set the greeting at 30 pt with a heart swash centred beneath, keep 14 mm of clear ground above the message at 9.5 pt, and hold 13 mm of margin on all sides.

Pre-production check

A fine swash at thirty points can fill in; print one card at the finished size and check the heart before the batch.

Wedding

Names line for a wedding invitation

The swash separates two names without a printed rule, and the hairline calligraphy gives the card the tone of an engraved invitation.

Hierarchy & layout recipe

Print a 130 by 180 mm invitation: set the names at 26 pt either side of a heart swash, keep 20 mm of clear ground beneath before the venue at 9 pt, and hold 18 mm of margin on all four sides.

Pre-production check

Hairline joins break on textured card; print one invitation on the intended stock and check the connectors before the suite.

Wedding

Label for a favour box

One small swash turns a plain favour label into a keepsake, and the script holds at twelve points because the stems are not hairline.

Hierarchy & layout recipe

Print a 45 by 70 mm tag: set the greeting at 12 pt with a small swash beneath, keep 5 mm of clear ground from the curl to the punch hole, and hold 5 mm of margin on all sides.

Pre-production check

A swash curl can reach the punch hole; print one tag, punch it and check the clearance before the order.

Technical & licence verification

File & listing specifications.

File & glyph specifications

Style classification
Script · Fine calligraphy with heart swashes
Foundry / creator
HansCo
Glyph encoding
PUA encoded — swashes & alternates open in Character Map (Windows) and Font Book (Mac)
Glyph encoding
PUA encoded for character-map access
Alternates & swashes
Stylistic alternates or swashes mentioned
Creator topic tags (7)

Swash · Love · Heart · Curly · Tails · Wedding · Swirls

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