Ashley Script

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Ashley Script
Category Script
Designer(s) Ashley Havinden
Foundry Monotype

Ashley Script is a typeface developed by the British designer Ashley Havinden in 1955 for Monotype Corporation. He also created the fonts Ashley Crawford and Ashley Inline. [1]

Ashley Script is a brush script and is based on Havinden's own handwriting.

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References

  1. Font Designer – Ashley Havinden linotype.com, 2014. Retrieved 10 April 2014. Archived here.