Early Plum

Early Plum is a formal copperplate-leaning italic script with a steady slant and unbroken connections.

The hairlines and weighted downstrokes alternate without exaggeration, and the letters lean at a consistent angle so a word reads in a single pass. The capitals carry pronounced flourishes that loop back through the baseline; the lowercase keeps a tighter, more even rhythm so the showier caps have somewhere to land. It feels less like contemporary calligraphy and more like the steady hand of an engraver working from an old plate.

It is the kind of lettering you can picture engraved across the silver lid of a powder compact, or written on the menu card at a long, slow Sunday lunch.

The font is built with advanced OpenType functionality and guaranteed top-notch quality, containing stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures and more automatic and manual features; all to give you full control and customizability. It has extensive lingual support, covering all Latin-based languages, from North Europa to South Africa, from America to South-East Asia. It contains all characters and symbols you'll ever need, including all punctuation and numbers.

Designed and created by Mans Greback.

Styles

• RegularEarly Plum Regular
• BoldEarly Plum Bold
• Bold ItalicEarly Plum Bold Italic
• ItalicEarly Plum Italic

Technical

Glyphs

841 · 727 characters

Formats

OTF

OpenType features

Standard ligatures, Discretionary ligatures, Fractions, Oldstyle figures, Lining figures, Tabular figures, Case-sensitive forms, Ordinals, Superscript, Subscript, Localized forms, 2 stylistic sets

Language support

Latin: Western European, Central European, Baltic, Turkish, Romanian, Vietnamese

Version

1.000