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Ducatus

Ducatus

by Scriptorium
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Ducatus Font Family was designed by David Nalle and published by Scriptorium. Ducatus contains 4 styles.

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About Ducatus Font Family


We wanted to make an ultra-thin, tall font with a rough, hand-drawn look and ended up with more than we bargained for. To get the font we wanted we started by developing a source font for the basic letter shapes and we ended up with a whole bunch of variations of the basic style. Thus was born the new Ducatus family of fonts, starting with Ducatus Light which developed into the Medium and Heavy versions, and the Medium weight was ultimately used as the basis for the Ducatus Rough font, which was the goal of the project in the first place. Ducatus Rough was created by modifying Ducatus Medium in Photoshop using Gallery Effects and several other filter packages, and then redoing the outlines from scratch in Fontographer. A lot of work, but the result is just what we wanted.

Designers: David Nalle

Publisher: Scriptorium

Foundry: Scriptorium

Design Owner: Scriptorium

MyFonts debut: Nov 10, 2003

Ducatus

About Scriptorium

Digital foundry based in Austin, Texas, run by Dave Nalle. Scriptorium offers hundreds of mostly decorative and calligraphic fonts, based on historical and folk sources.

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