Voltage Regular

Voltage takes the script font in a different direction, with an emphasis on practicality and uniformity, and with the reader's needs at the forefrontthis is a straightforward, muscular lettering font, assertive, yet down-to-earth. In fact, it is one of the few script fonts that you can use with confidence at a relatively small size e.g., 18 pt in a short paragraph. The beauty is found in its elegantly-wrought construction, its versatility, its references to a different era, and in the galvanizing swashes and alternates available not only in a professional designer's software, but to everyone with a computer. Or, dig into Voltage swashes and alternates for much larger titles to capture the attention of the reader and create a dramatic presence, such as using the powerful lightning bolt swash that shoots out from the descender of the lowercase g. Voltage calls to mind gas stations, machinists, receipts at machine shops, trips to the soda fountain at the drugstore, shopping at the five and dime. It can have the spirit of a picniccasual, fun, and friendly, yet, in other contexts, convey tough mountain-biking. Script fonts often are quirky. Like many of Worthington's typefaces, Voltage is evocative of a milieu or era. Like those old jeans, the look depends on how and where you use it. So, use this font for small areas of text and it makes a statement without overpowering the main body text. She used a tall x-height, minimal detailing in the lowercase ascenders and descenders, worked on low contrast, and amped it up to make it heavier and add substance. To view the User Guide that shows all of the features and what's included, visit: NOTE: For questions, including how to use this font and access alternates, please visit the FAQs page on my website: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Voltage, created by award-winning typeface and lettering designer Laura Worthington, is an unexpected and energetic standout in the world of script fonts, breaking free from formal classifications while retaining the degree of personality we treasure in hand lettering. Stems have a weighty base but have light strokes in many letters for clarity and distinctiveness. This most magnetic typeface provides 154 unique swash designs that yield a total of 348 swash variations , 39 alternates, and 15 ligatures. The default setting without swashes and alternates is best for phrases and subheads. It is not based on naturally-occurring handwriting; it's clearly a structured lettering form based on balance, a solid rhythm, and uniformity. You can dress up a good pair of jeans by choosing high heels; you can dress down with sturdy work boots. Here, we see the metal lettering on automobiles of the pastwith their retro takes on a bright futureand those emblems of an optimistic, hardworking period. Its overall regularity references a time when the machine was kingthe late days of the Industrial Age. Because Worthington assigned unicode values to the swashes and alternates, anyone can use their operating system's Character Map to access them. Voltage is ideal for headlines, logos, subheads, short sentences, phrases, a short paragraph, and pull quotes. Electrifying! It comes in 3 weightslight, regular, and boldand even the regular weight is as substantial as many bolds in other fonts. No one letter dominates the others. Her primary goal was unique: readability with personality. Gone are the large loops, the frilliness, and the choice of beauty and elegance over utility. How could she strive for clarity, readability, and uniformity, yet retain the vivid personality that Voltage and its designers and readers deserve? In contrast, this is a workhorse, almost a text version of a script font. The challenge, as Worthington worked on Voltage, was noting that script fonts are almost always notoriously difficult to read. Voltage is versatile. Imagine vintage instructions on signs or paper; they may be created by machinery or by hand, yet both have that industrial sensibility. The options become endless. Yet, in its twists and small irregularities, we see vestiges of hand-painted signage, the rivets in beloved, old, worn blue jeans, the touch of the common man who, alongside women, built America. We sense visions in the 1950sand earlierof what the Nuclear Age would look like. The looped descenders of the lowercase g and other letters use a thin stroke that curves and thickens as it rises up to meet the next letter, making the loop lighter and therefore more legible than a large uniform loop.

Script Fonts

Voltage Regular