Karlsborg

Karlsborg is a calligraphic display script with long swashes and a calm, measured rhythm.

The capitals open with high entry strokes that loop back into the body of the letter, and the descenders carry on past the baseline with confidence rather than flourish for its own sake. The lowercase keeps an even weight from upstroke to downstroke, with subtle terminals that look pulled rather than constructed. The result reads as something written slowly, by hand, on good paper — closer to a kept letter than to a wedding invitation.

You can picture it engraved on the front of a small theatre programme, or set in gold on the back of a leather-bound notebook that someone has carried around for years.

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

• RegularKarlsborg Regular
• BoldKarlsborg Bold
• Bold ItalicKarlsborg Bold Italic
• ItalicKarlsborg Italic

Technical

Glyphs

840 · 727 characters

Formats

OTF

OpenType features

Standard ligatures, Discretionary ligatures, Contextual alternates, Initial forms, 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