Steinweiss Script began its journey towards daylight when Michael Doret was asked by Taschen Publishing to do cover lettering for the huge commemorative edition they were putting together on the work of Alex Steinweiss—“The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover.” The lettering was to be created to appear similar to the famous “Steinweiss scrawl”—the calligraphy that Steinweiss had used on countless album covers.
While designing this piece of lettering, Michael realized that there was great potential for a font that was designed in the spirit of that famous scrawl. Through his contacts at Taschen Publishing, he was fortunate enough to be able to contact the Steinweiss family, and get the official Steinweiss approval to proceed with his Steinweiss Script project. Michael decided that in addition to giving the font his name as an homage, that he would donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this font to the man himself: Alex Steinweiss.
Steinweiss Script is a family of fonts in three weights: Light, Medium, and Bold. Additionally, within each weight there are three variations: Simple, Fancy, and Titling. These variations relate to the size and ratio of the caps to the lowercase, the complexity of those caps and the size of the ascenders/descenders on the lowercase characters. These variations add usefulness to the font making it accessible not just for headlines but for longer passages of text as well. For a better understanding of its unique features please download The Steinweiss Script User’s Guide from the Gallery section.
NOTE: the three "Steinweiss Script" fonts are cross-platform fonts which depend to some extent on certain advanced OpenType features, therefore they can be used to their full potential only with programs that support those features.
For a better understanding of its unique features please download The Steinweiss Script user’s Guide, located above.About the designer:
You’re probably familiar with Michael Doret’s work without even knowing it. If you’ve seen his logo for the NY Knicks or one of his many Time covers then you’re familiar with the power and dynamism he has brought to the art of hand-lettering for many years. But now with the opening of his digital font foundry Alphabet Soup he is excited to have added font design to his list of accomplishments. Check out Doret’s other Alphabet Soup fonts at Veer, including Deliscript, which was awarded the prestigious Certificate of Excellence by Type Directors Club in the display fonts category for their TDC² 2010 Typeface Design Competition.
With his letterform/graphic design work Michael is an eight-time winner of the New York Art Directors Club Silver Award In his unique typographic vision he blends elements of lettering, illustration and graphic design. Inspiration for his work has come from such diverse sources as matchbook covers, theater marquees, enamel signs, early and mid-20th century packaging, and various other artifacts of this great land of ours.
This package contains:
Steinweiss Script Light, Steinweiss Script Medium and Steinweiss Script Bold
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