Caflisch Script: a one-axis multiple master typeface

Script Typefaces
Strictly speaking, a script typeface is an imitation of handwriting.
It is a maer of opinion which typefaces should
be classified as scripts, especially since all early type designs
come from wrien forms. Today, we typically label a typeface
as a script if it retains the look of having been wrien
with a pen or other writing implement.
From Gutenberg’s Bible
The first successful script typeface was cut and cast in
metal by Johannes Gutenberg. He modeled it on the Gothic
script of the time and used it to print his famous bibles in
the 1450s. As the printed book gained acceptance throughout
Europe, new typefaces were created. The most successful
early designs were based on the humanistic book hands
of the Italian Renaissance (figures 5 and 7).
In 17th-century France, three commonly used hand -
writing styles were reproduced as printing types: Ronde,
a rounded upright form; and bâtarde coulée and bâtarde
ordinaire, both italic forms (figure 9).
The double pica script of Thomas Corell (1774) emu -
lated the copperplate scripts of the time and subsequently
became the prototype for similar styles of types (figure 12).
Type designers such as Fournier, Fleischman, Rosart,
Didot, and Bodoni transformed distinguished versions of
pointed -quill scripts into the vernacular of their times
by rendering them as printing type.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, numerous formal and
freestyle script typefaces were designed. In addition to
traditional broad-edged and pointed-quill script types,
brush scripts and, more recently, scripts inspired by the
felt-tipped marker, pencil, ruling pen, and even the spray
paint can can now be seen.