Poem Script Font

Publisher: Sudtipos

Poem Script is a blended collection of analyses conjuring a late 19th century American pen script style.

Though not a real Italian letterform, this style was called "Italian Alphabet" coming from an old penman's term for an alphabet where the stress or shades are opposite their typical positioning. The American version followed from the late eighteenth century British hand also confusingly called "Italian Hand," which itself progressed from some seventeenth century French batarde scripts.
It showcases the incredible control and mastery of hand abilities required to create such ornamental and lively letters centuries back. Making the shaded strokes in reversed positions such as this needed holding the pen in a position horizontal to the baseline, or the letterforms would have to be written in reverse or by rotating the paper at peculiar and extreme angles to attain the effect.

Exotic, elaborate and very attractive, Poem Script contains a lot of variations on each letter and includes hundreds of calligraphic ornaments.

Poem Script received a Certificate of Quality at the Type Directors Club NY and was picked at the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2012.