ITC Scarborough Complete Family Pack

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Today's magazine pages, advertising, and graphics require a more compact typeface, says Akira Kobayashi, designer of ITC Scarborough. “One can easily name a number of condensed sans-serifs, but how about script types?” So Kobayashi, who also designed the serif text family ITC Woodland, borrowed his own handwriting for ITC Scarborough, a narrow, slightly slanted display face with many roman letterforms (especially in the capital letters), but with the flourishes and overall style of a cursive. “Because it is a script style, words set in Scarborough appear dynamic,” says Kobayashi. Also, its stroke contrast aids quick comprehension. To achieve a handwritten look, combinations of some lowercase letters like ff and tt will form automatically joined characters. Scarborough comes in two weights, regular and bold, and should be set fairly tightly to attain maximum impact. It brings a bouncy liveliness to headlines and other display text in a very narrow space.