Freestyle Script

font designed by Martin Wait in 1981

AI overview

Freestyle Script is a decorative typeface created by Martin Wait in 1981 that features flowing, handwritten-style letterforms. It became influential in graphic design and typography during the 1980s and beyond, particularly for headlines and creative applications where a more casual, artistic look was desired.

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Vinony files it under Script typefaces and Typefaces.

Its subject is documented across 88 Wikipedia language editions.

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Commons category: Freestyle Script
described at URL: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/freestyle-script
inception: 1981-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

Text of Freestyle Script

Freestyle Script is an informal display script typeface that was designed by Colin Brignall in 1969 and Martin Wait in 1981, by Letraset. Freestyle Script is famously used for commercials in 1980s, birthday cards, decorative, logos and many others. The bold version was designed in 1986. The publishers of this font are Adobe, ITC, Monotype Imaging, Elsner+Flake, Esselte Corporation (in 1997), Scangraphic Type, Linotype, Image Club, and Letraset. This font has a few versions, namely Regular, Bold, LT, Plain, LET, EF, SB, SH, SH Reg Alt, and SB Reg Alt. Freestyle Script font supports up to 78 different languages for cursive (plain) and 33 different languages for other styles (Regular, Bold, Alt, etc.). The Cyrillic version of Freestyle Script was created in 1993, consisting of the glyphs in Latin supplement. The font has been included in MyFonts since 2000.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Freestyle Script” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.