Rolling Pen

What is the Rolling Pen Font?

After doing this for so many years, one would think my fascination with the old history of writing would have mellowed out by now. The truth is that alongside being a calligraphy history buff, I’m a pop technology freak. Maybe even keener on the tech thing, since I just can’t seem to get enough new gadgets. And after working with type technologies for so many years, I’m starting to think that writing and design technologies as we now know them, being about 2.5 post-computer generations, keep becoming more and more detached from what the very old humanity arts/tasks they essentially want to facilitate. In a world where command-z is a frequently used key combination, it’s difficult to justify expecting a Morris-made book or a Zaner-drawn sentence, but accidental artistic “mutations” become welcome, marketable features. When fluid pens were introduced, their liquid saturation influenced type design to a great extent almost overnight ‹ an influence professional designers tend to play down. Now round stroke endings are a common sight, and the saturation is so clean and measured, unlike any liquid-paper relationship possible in reality. Some designers even illustrate their work by overlaying perfect circles at stroke ends, in order to illustrate how “geometric” their work was. Because if it’s measured with precise geometry, it’s got to be meaningful design. And once in a while, by a total freak accident, the now-cherished mutations prove to have existed long before the technology that caused them. Rolling Pen was cued by just such a thing: A rounded, circular, roll-flowing calligraphy from the late nineteenth century ‹ seemingly one of those experimental takes on what inspired Business Penmanship, another font of mine. Looking at it now it certainly seems to be friendlier, more legible, and maybe even more practical and easier to execute than the standard business penmanship of those days, but I guess friendliness and simplicity were at odds with the stiff manner business liked to present itself back then, so that kind of thing remained buried in the professional penman’s oddities drawer. It would be quite a few years before all this curviness and rounding were thought of as symbolic of graceful movement, which brought such a flow closer to the idea of fine art.. Even though in this case the accidental mutation just happens to not be a mutation after all, the whole technology-transforms-application argument still applies here. I’m almost sure “business” will be the last thing on people’s minds when they use this font today. One extreme example of that level of disconnect between origin and current application is shown here, with the so-called business penmanship strutting around in gloss and neon.. Rolling Pen is another cup of mine that runneth over with alternates, swashes, ligatures, and other techy perks. To explore its full potential, please use it in a program that supports OpenType features for advanced typography.. Enjoy the new Rolling Pen designed by Ale Paul with Neon’s visual poetry by Tomás García.

Rolling Pen Font Families

When you download Rolling Pen, the family will include the following font styles:

• Rolling Pen Complete
• Rolling Pen Basic One
• Rolling Pen Basic Two
• Rolling Pen Curly
• Rolling Pen Extras

Preview of the Rolling Pen Font

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Who Designed the Rolling Pen Font?

This font has 5 style(s) and was published by Sudtipos.

Is Rolling Pen a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Rolling Pen is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Rolling Pen. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Rolling Pen for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Rolling Pen if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Rolling Pen to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Rolling Pen for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Rolling Pen, it was available for as little as $19.00.