In the early 1980s, at the start of my career, I had the opportunity to work in a print shop with classic lead setting. In those days I would study issues of U&lc magazine from ITC. What really caught my attention were scripts in the Spencerian style. I’ve been fascinated by this American penmanship tradition ever since. A few years ago I developed a font. Boris Bencic used it when he was redesigning L’Officiel magazine in Paris. I took these initial forms and developed them into the font Mommie when I started my own foundry. Although I usually design text typefaces, working on Mommie taught me how complex it can be to create a script headline font. The biggest challenge in this process has been to keep it alive and fresh. The Regular weight is only made for very big headlines. The thin lines with the bold drops are very elegant. For smaller sizes use the Medium and Small weight. It won the TDC 2008 award and was Judges Choice of Christian Schwartz.

Bignay is a lovely, modern calligraphic script. It features dynamic and pretty swashes and can be used for many purposes such as titles, signatures, logos, wedding invitations, letterhead, signage, labels, newsletters, posters, badges, and more. Bignay includes OpenType features, including the initial and terminal letters, ligatures and International support for most Western languages ​. To activate OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign and CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or later. How to access all of the alternate characters, using the Windows Character Map to Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw How to access all of the alternate character using Adobe Illustrator: http://youtu.be/iptSFA7feQ0nn How to use stylistic sets font in Microsoft Word 2010 or later versions: https://youtu.be/x1A_ilsBsGs Bignay is PUA encoded which allows full access to all the extra characters without having to design special software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use the Character Map to view and copy one additional character to paste into your text editor / favorite applications.