Lush Script
DESIGNER
Neil Summerour
RELEASED
2011
WEIGHTS/STYLES
Regular
FORMAT OPTIONS
OpenType (OTF)
LOCALIZATION
Extended Latin
Purchase
PRINT/DESKTOP
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WEBFONT
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design inspiration
Lush was a formal script until it had a few too many drinks and, as a result, loosened up a little bit. Harkening back to the handlettering of the 40s and 50s, Lush has evolved into a casual, but well-dressed script that maintains a rather aggressive rhythm. Transitions often whip back quickly, forcing the letters to reel from the movement and resolve efficiently. It is not as warm as some scripts, intentionally so, so as to distinguish it from its predecessors.

design information
Type and lettering fans will revel in the options afforded to each character—in some cases there are up to 15 different variations with multiple glyph recipes available to produce the most unique and fluid lettering combinations possible. An often overlooked segment of contemporary script fonts, the uppercase letters have at least 3 options to work with that mesh well with the 36 ornamental flourishes to add even further embellishment. In total, there are over 1,650 glyphs in the typeface that includes these OpenType options: Stylistic Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Swashes, Titling, Historical Forms, Initial Forms, Oldstyle Numerals and 3 additional Stylistic Sets. With this release, I have tried to provide as much flexibility and 'forgiveness' within the typeface so the lettering enthusiast can have fun and explore thousands of iterations… and it's pretty easy math to figure this out: with over 970 alternates and 270 ligatures, I intended this typeface to be one that keeps on giving.

One important fact to note… this marks the first release of a smooth, non-brushed, non-textured script from me—but it won't be the last. That said, I will have to admit that the brush has influenced many of the characters and their construction. Enjoy :)


 

Contextual Alternates

(calt)
 

Stylistic Alternates

(salt)
 

Ligatures

(liga)

 

Swashes

(swsh)

 

Titling Alternates

(titl)

 

Historical Figures

(hist)

 

Initial Forms

(init)

 

Contextual + Stylistic Alt

(calt + salt)

 

Ligature + Titling

(liga + titl)

 

Ligature + Stylistic Alt

(liga + salt)
Basic Character Set
Numerals, Currency, Math, Fractions, Superiors & Inferiors
Ligatures
Diacritics
Stylistic Alternates
Swashes
Titling Alternates
Symbols
  Latin-1 Support
Albanian, Danish, Dutch, English, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog,

Latin Extended-A Support
Afrikaans, Basque, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Esperanto, Estonian, Fijian, French, Frisian, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Māori, Polish, Provençal, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Moldavian, Romany, Sámi, Samoan, Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian, Turkish, Welsh

Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish) 8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2) 8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Lush Script Complete Specimen
(348 kb)
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Lush Script Poster
(74 kb)
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Lush Script: A Quickie from Positype on Vimeo.

The 1,672 glyphs of the Lush Script typeface presented in succession within 2 minutes.