Forte (typeface)

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Forte
CategoryScript
ClassificationCalligraphy
Designer(s)Carl Reissberger
FoundryMonotype
Date createdMay 8, 1962
Glyphs253

Forte is a script typeface designed by Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962, for the Monotype Corporation. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1.[citation needed]

Design[edit]

The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.[1] It is intended to give a contrast to sans-serif and classical modern types.[1] Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.[2]

Unicode[edit]

Forte has characters in the following Unicode ranges:[3]

Block Glyphs
Basic Latin 95
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 6
Latin Extended-B 1

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