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Solantra

Solantra

by Stephen Rapp
Individual Styles from $24.00
Complete family of 2 fonts: $79.00
Solantra Font Family was designed by Stephen W. Rapp and published by Stephen Rapp. Solantra contains 4 styles and family package options.

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Solantra Pro Pack

2 fonts

Best Value!

Per style:

$39.50

Pack of 2 styles:

$79.00

Per style:

$19.50

Pack of 2 styles:

$39.00

About Solantra Font Family


Solantra is a solidly crafted handwritten script. I’ve long felt that beautiful writing is more pleasing to the eye than the more attention grabbing swashes and flourishes. That being said, both have their role in design and Solantra has a large slice of each. Solantra combines vintage style handwriting with all its quirks and English Roundhand of that same era. The result is a solid setting script filled with charm and personality. With default Adobe Illustrator settings for Ligatures and Contextual Alternates active, the vintage charm is in full display. Want to add more flair? There are loads of more embellished letters inside the full version. Solantro takes into account how scripts are actually written so that connections from letter to letter are more fluid and rhythmic than the average script font. In natural script/handwriting most letters end at the bottom right and move up to connect with the next. Some letters like o, v, and w, however; end at the top right. Rather than force these letters to dip down and go back up they should ideally connect from that upper right point. This is accomplished through a series of alternate letters and ligatures with extensive contextual feature programming. So, for example, you might get one version of a ligature in the middle of a word and a different one at the beginning or end of that word. Solantra also takes into account another often overlooked feature of natural handwriting. When you write you inevitably pick your pen up from the paper at times. This is often just to reposition the hand, but in the days of writing with dip pens this was also needed to attain a fresh supply of ink. Having these occasional breaks in connections makes the writing less static and more rhythmic. While the Basic versions are limited to a standard character set and several ligatures and alternates for better settings of text, the full pro versions contains 1292 glyphs and an abundance of features. Even with numbers there are options like Oldstyle numbers, fractions, and ordinals. Central European language support is included as well as some select ligatures that use accents. To see more on the technical aspects and instructions on using Solantra, please check out the user’s guide in the Gallery section. **Note: The Pro versions of Solantra which do not have the word “Basic” attached to the title, have everything in them. So if you license a Pro version there is no need to get the Basic versions.

Designers: Stephen W. Rapp

Publisher: Stephen Rapp

Foundry: Stephen Rapp

Original Foundry: unknown

Design Owner: Stephen Rapp

MyFonts debut: Sep 29, 2016

Solantra

About Stephen Rapp

Stephen Rapp is based out of Kent, OH. He came to type design through his work as a lettering artist at American Greetings. Having studied with many of the best calligraphers, Stephen has taught workshops across the nation and at international conferences. Pulling from his expertise with calligraphy and lettering he develops fonts designed to be both well crafted and user friendly. He also designs and develops proprietary fonts to meet the needs for both companies and individuals. His commercial fonts have garnered awards like the Type Director’s Club award. 

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