An authentic script from the tip of the ball point pen

This hasn’t been seen yet: A typeface which truly looks as if it were handwritten. Calligraphy is, actually, the art of fine writing…
…and actually, written scripts as typeface for the computer are 100% nonsense.

And yet, an obvious thought: Create a typeface which truly derives from everyday handwriting. And since we, if we write at all, utilize practically only a ball point pen anymore, then a modern cursive writing form must look like just that.

As a counterpart to the artistic ”handwritings“ which have long been available as typeface, the thought of digitalizing a truly ”ugly“ handwriting is appealing. After all, time and again there is the need for a text to look ”handwritten,“.

Biró Script is written freehand with a ball point pen. Does Biró Script look dead? No, on the contrary! Finally a truly individual script!

Biró Script includes more than 300 authentic ligatures in addition to the customary alphabet.

And the OpenType-Technique makes it possible: The ligatures appear automatically like magic when entering the text.
For example, when you enter the word alphabet the program substitutes the letter order a l, h a and e t with the corresponding letter combinations al, ha and et. So, the form of the single character seldom repeats itself since it is mostly replaced with a ligature; and, with each combination of characters the result is a slightly different form of the individual character.

Type set in Biró Script appears remarkably similar to a text actually handwritten with a ball point pen.

By the way, the most convincing effect is obtained with a font size of about 18 to 22 points, at which the thickness of the stroke is now about the same as that of a real ball point pen.