In the 1960s Georg Salden designed an opening advert for an hat shop in Dusseldorf. With a broad-nib pen he wrote a bold italic with large swashes (see image above). From this written text he later developed Daphne, a strong and sharp-edged typeface which includes a large number of separate swashes. These calligraphic swashes can be added to the letters in any order, which provides hundreds of possibilities (see below).

Now, many years later, Salden decided to develop a script version of his Daphne typeface. Again, written with a broad-nib pen, Salden created an elegant and vital script with luscious swashes and numerous alternate characters (see below). Please read more on the development of Daphne Script here.

Daphne Script is a new typeface by Georg Salden, based on his own cursive handwriting. The result is a charming script with elegantly curved characters and calligraphic swashes.

It contains various alternate characters accessible via the OpenType features Stylistic Sets or Stylistic Alternates (see below).