Scottsdale Desert is inspired by a classic contemporary Display combined with a simple modern Serif look. It's a versatile font, it can be used for a lot of design styles. Characteristic for Scottsdale are the small to bigger rounded serif strokes that make it look sharp and comfy. Thin, light strokes define the modernity and simplicity of the typeface itself. The OldStyle Numerical match with the characteristic of this fonts. Using Scottsdale Desert's lowercases for a long text will work, but it is at its best as Header or Display.
Scottsdale Desert comes with most OpenType Features:
- Powerful ligatures as Discretionary Ligatures
- Stylistic Alternates on Uppercase and Lowercase
- Contextual Swashes adding a Terminal (first swash) on the First Uppercase letters
- Small Capitals (can be operated with the Titling Alternates button)
- Catchword are created with Contextual alternates (see the images to show how it works).
- Punctuation and Symbol are perfectly matched with all letters
- Numerical features are available :
Tabular Figures
Numerator
Denominator
Superscript/Superior -Subscript/Inferior and Fraction.
Baby Script Baby Script includes changes to the OpenType language style, binding and international support for most Western languages. To activate the OpenType Stylistic alternative, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe Indesign & CorelDraw X6-X7, Microsoft Word 2010 or a later version. How to access all alternative characters using Adobe Illustrator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzwjMkbB-wQ Baby Script is coded with PUA Unicode, which allows full access to all additional characters without having to design special software. Mac users can use Font Book, and Windows users can use Character Map to view and copy any of the additional characters to paste into your favorite text editor / application. How to access all alternative characters, using the Windows Character Map with Photoshop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go9vacoYmBw If you need help or have any questions, let me know. I'm happy to help :) Thanks & Congr