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DT Paperside

DT Paperside

by Dragon Tongue Foundry
Individual Styles from $15.00 USD
Complete family of 6 fonts: $25.00 USD
DT Paperside Font Family was designed by Scott Spensley and published by Dragon Tongue Foundry. DT Paperside contains 6 styles and family package options.

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About DT Paperside Font Family


Paperside:

Neither Papyrus nor SSI Countryside.

Inspired in some ways by the Papyrus form, but untextured and smoother, with the dimensions and proportions more open, like that of Countryside SSi, with its larger easily readable lowercase body, and more consistent, shorter stems.

Paperside has an open scripted feel which is pleasing on the eye and easy to read.

Paperside can enhance the first letter of most sentences automatically, and changes other letters to suit their position within words, and the letters they appear beside.


Now comes in 5 weights plus italic.


For best results, use this ‘smart font’

with Contextual Ligatures turned on.


Mulitiple Stylistic Alternatives

are included.

Inspiration for this font came from two other fonts.

Papyrus: was designed by Chris Costello and created in 1982, it is a hand-drawn textured typeface, emulating texts written in biblical times.

One of the most used (and misused) fonts of all times.

Owned by Letraset, and currently published by the Internation Typeface Corporating (ITC).


Countryside SSi: The serif font of an unknown designer, is currently licensed by Southern Software Inc.


Feel free to preview some of the Dragon Tongue fonts that are yet to be released, at https://www.dragon-tongue.com/fonts

Designers: Scott Spensley

Publisher: Dragon Tongue Foundry

Foundry: Dragon Tongue Foundry

Design Owner: Dragon Tongue Foundry

MyFonts debut: Jan 4, 2022

DT Paperside

About Dragon Tongue Foundry

Dragon Tongue Foundry. Scott Spensley from New Zealand, is the overall designer of all Dragon Tongue fonts. The foundry of Dragon Tongue came in to being around 40 years ago, to be a source of new music and graphic design ideas. The first real high quality digital font from this Foundry was created around 20 years ago. It was a digitised version of Scott’s wife’s calligraphy. It was stunningly good, and admired by all who saw it. It was never released. Sadly, after the his wife passed away from cancer, and multiple hard-drive crashes, the font was lost, and there are now no versions of it remaining. Dragon Tongue shut down for a period of time, but recently, with extra spare time created by Covid and lockdowns… the Foundry has re-awoken, and is focused totally on creating exciting new fonts, in multiple styles. Some of the current style directions are, Serif and San-Serif, Handwriting and script, hand drawn period, Art-Deco to 80’s, from serious high quality to funky and fun, extending the range of known font styles, and exploring modern adaptable fonts using contextual ligatures and Stylistic alternatives, swashes and ‘smart’ letters that adapt to their neighbours and position in a word or sentence. We aim to craft fonts that feel ‘clever’, as if it knows what the writer wants of it. Fonts that add a little bit more than a standard font does. In some cases, fonts that feel natural and alive. Feel free to check out some of his fonts that are yet to be released, at https://www.dragon-tongue.com/fonts

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