Like the original Adorn family on which it’s based, Adorn Smooth provides a suite of distinctive typeface designs designed to complement each other rather than match exactly. Adorn Smooth revisits 6 faces from Adorn — Pomander, Serif, Slab Serif, Engraved, Condensed, and script Catchwords; plus ornaments, banners, and frames — in smooth, un-textured versions.
As with Adorn, Adorn Smooth provides a disparate but harmonious typographic toolkit for creating wedding invitations, event posters, book jackets, or packaging.
ADORN POMANDER SMOOTH REGULAR
Adorn Pomander, is a whimsical butterfly of a font: light and airy. We see the essence of those times when love is new, when our minds take flight with daydreams, and our days are bright and giddy. The uppercase letters, especially, break the rules of traditional classic calligraphy. With 390 swashes and alternate letterforms.
ADORN POMANDER SMOOTH BOLD
Adorn Pomander, is a whimsical butterfly of a font: light and airy. We see the essence of those times when love is new, when our minds take flight with daydreams, and our days are bright and giddy. The uppercase letters, especially, break the rules of traditional classic calligraphy. With 390 swashes and alternate letterforms.
ADORN SLAB SERIF REGULAR
Adorn Slab Serif is available in Regular and Bold weights. Though these display fonts can also be used for body text, their uppercase mode shines, adding texture and style to a message. Adorn Slab Serifs are unique in the Adorn collection in that they are all mono-weights. They are perhaps more masculine in style than many of the other typefaces, with a touch of “retro,”—an historic reference with a contemporary spin. The option to use both upper and lower cases also affords a practicality.
ADORN SLAB SERIF BOLD
Adorn Slab Serif is available in Regular and Bold weights. Though these display fonts can also be used for body text, their uppercase mode shines, adding texture and style to a message. Adorn Slab Serifs are unique in the Adorn collection in that they are all mono-weights. They are perhaps more masculine in style than many of the other typefaces, with a touch of “retro,”—an historic reference with a contemporary spin. The option to use both upper and lower cases also affords a practicality.
ADORN SERIF
Adorn Serif breaks free from the slick and overly polished stock. Leaning toward a handmade authenticity, the letterforms were originally drawn by hand, and Worthington accentuates their irregularities and organic look in her design choices.
ADORN ENGRAVED
Adorn Engraved is strongly reminiscent of formal invitations popular in the past. Still, the sweet tail of the Q and the irregular qualities of the lines bring it into the twenty-first century and accentuates the decorative look of the engraved font; the incisions within the stems and serifs allow the designer to use color to enliven them.
ADORN SANS CONDENSED
Of all the fonts in the Adorn Collection, Sans Condensed may be the most easily identified as bucking the template-derived wedding trend, given its modernity and informality. Created for weddings, gatherings, and pretty handmade items, it would be equally at home as a branding element of titling in movie credits. Brimming with whimsy and the eccentricities of the human touch, Condensed Sans also has contextual alternates with ambicase letters—a distinctive feature not usually found in display fonts.
ADORN CATCHWORDS
Twenty Adorn Catchwords, all custom hand-lettered using a fountain pen calligraphic technique, provide a stunning way to display frequently used words, such as prepositions, to connect factual information or simply to bridge the gap between a lavish script and a hard-working display font.
ADORN BANNERS
Twenty Adorn Banners, each with a mirrored image left and right element, are available, with a customized center that can be expanded to encapsulate a message or heading of any width. Whether the design requires something sophisticated, flowery, or hand-drawn in appearance, or a structure that whispers in the background so the message itself is the star, Adorn Banners are marked by the same versatility as the rest of the collection.
ADORN FRAMES
Adorn Frames is a highly customizable set of elements offering a multitude of approaches to creating frames of any width, height, and style. Use it for corner elements, borders, or to make an actual frame. Adorn Frames features twenty corner elements and nine sets of top, bottom, and side pieces, along with a detailed description in the User’s Guide on how to construct the frames. Sides pieces include scalloped edges and other options with personality, along with classic straight edges to form rectangles and squares.
ADORN ORNAMENTS
In keeping with the spirit of the collection, Adorn Ornaments gift the designer with one hundred and thirty unique ornamental illustrations. From works inspired by nature, to stunning wreaths, embellishments, rules, and iconic wedding symbols, Adorn Ornaments are meant to accompany the scripts, rather than restricting them to a theme. They dance from whimsical to modern to vintage looks, yet stay safely within the range of the spectrum that is appropriate for the style of the scripts.
Published by Laura Worthington
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