The “handwriting of the man of the twentieth century” with a ballpoint or a round fiber tip pen in hand... Mistral SingleLine is Roger Excoffon’s iconic script font in a monolinear version, distributed as both an open-paths skeletal font oriented towards CNC (Computer Numerical Control) practices and a classic outline font for print or web usages. Mistral SingleLine proposes a new digital interpretation of the Mistral metal typeface originally published in 1953 by the Olive Foundry (Marseille, France), providing never digitized landmark signs such as the interchangeable «paraphe» / “downstroke glyph” for ff, pp, ss combinations, the ligatures ll, on, qu, st, th and a, e, u finals with longer tails, etc. Mistral SingleLine offers an extended Latin character set with OpenType features (various stylistic sets, alternate signs, case sensitive punctuation and symbols, new ligatures, contextual alternates and old style figures by default) and an uppercase / lowercase revisited kerning.
Mistral SingleLine provides a central-line path for a pen, laser, engraving or milling tool to follow for an efficient and clean looking typographical rendering in fab labs environments. Based on the OpenType-SVG format, Mistral SingleLine open)-paths font is running on Adobe apps (CC 2019 and above). Mistral SingleLine with its skeletal logic and parametric thickness can also be useful in print and web experiments.
