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Ashley Script

Ashley Script is a typeface developed by the British designer Ashley Havinden in 1955 for Monotype Corporation.

About Ashley Script

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

From the Wikipedia article “Ashley Script”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Ashley Script in a book

Script faces belong on covers, titles and short accents. Avoid them for body text and never set them in all caps.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

Sources & data

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