Script

A category of

Typeface that emulate the fluid, connected strokes of cursive handwriting. Script faces are divided into two broad classes: formal scripts, which derive from the pointed-pen writing masters of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and feature elegant flourishes and joining strokes; and casual scripts, inspired by twentieth-century brush lettering, which are looser and more relaxed in construction. Script typefaces are suited only to display use — headlines, invitations, short titling — as their ornamental complexity renders them illegible in continuous body text.