Caridade is a vibrant and powerful script face. It draws some inspiration from heavy brush drawn classic hand lettering but its heavy weight is much thicker with plenty of effect and more contemporary letterforms. The face offers a broad variety of weights, from the powerful Heavy weight to the elegant Thin. Caridade can finish the job for lots of unique style jobs.
Caridade includes many useful OpenType features, including a set of non-connecting alternates, 40 ligatures, and 2 types of end letterforms. OpenType functions consist of accessories, swash endings, ending contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, ligatures and 3 various stylistic sets filled with alternates. In overall, there are over 60 alternate letterforms. Please see the sample.pdf to see these functions in action.
OpenType capable applications such as Quark or the Adobe suite can maximize the instantly changing ligatures and alternates. This household also consists of the glyphs to support a large variety of languages.