Prepare yourself for a new frontier in digital calligraphy. Never before has a script typeface given you so many creative options. Ministry’s OpenType features include contextual and stylistic alternates, swash characters, and a galaxy of ligatures. A single face with over 1,000 characters to explore.Alejandro Paul designed Ministry Script to be “A time capsule that marks both the American ad art of the 1920s, and the current new-millennium acrobatics of digital type.” The idea was to make as many possible variants of each letter as he could possibly handle.
Says Paul, “Soon after I started, I disappointedly found out that what I could handle didn’t really matter - I had to reduce my efforts to what the technology itself could handle. Since Adobe InDesign and Adobe Illustrator are currently at the forefront of OpenType integration, I had to do the glyph math in concert with the ways those two programs could handle letter variations. The OpenType palette provides access to four different variants of each letter. More access can be acquired via the glyphs palette in both programs.”
Ministry Script goes overboard with ligatures, which involve standard, discretionary, contextual, and even swash features of the font. Says Paul, “At one point during the long, long testing phase, I found myself looking at twelve noticeably different visual instances of the same word, all set with this same font. I believe this sort of flexibility is not currently offered in any single script font on the market today.”
Ministry Script contains 99,814 kerning pairs.
About the designer:
Ale Paul is one of the founders of the Sudtipos project, a key reference for the quality of its work. His work has contributed enormously in placing Argentina firmly on the map of Graphic Design. Ale’s career as an art director landed him in some of Argentina’s most prestigious studios, and handling such high-profile corporate brands as Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, Danone, and others.
With the founding of Sudtipos Ale shifted his efforts to typeface design, creating fonts and lettering for several top packaging agencies, along with commercial faces. In 2012 his font Piel Script was selected at Letter2. He has received four certificates of excellence with Burgues Script, Adios Script, Poem Script and Hipster Script from the Type Directors Club NY and several awards at the Tipos Latinos biennial of typography.
He teaches a postgraduate typography program at the University of Buenos Aires, where he previously taught graphic design. He has also taught seminars and spoken at the Type Master Weeks NY, TypoBerlin, TypeCon, Pecha Kucha and Atypi conferences, at the Type Directors Club in New York City, and at events in France, Spain, Portugal, Chile, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico and Canada.
His work has been featured in publications around the globe, including Eye, Communication Arts. Print, Creative Review, Visual, Creative Arts, Novum and many others.
He has been designated ATypi’s country delegate and is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale and the first one for Argentina.
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Ministry Script
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