Forte (typeface)

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Forte
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Category Script
Classification Calligraphy
Designer(s) Carl Reissberger
Foundry Monotype
Date created1962
Glyphs253

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

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Design

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

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

BlockGlyphs
Basic Latin95
Latin-1 Supplement95
Latin Extended-A6
Latin Extended-B1

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