Gautreaux Font Family

Victoria Rushton returns to her first typographic love: script lettering. As she worked on what would eventually become Gautreaux, she wondered whether the usual niceties that tend to accompany connected script faces in the age of OpenType—tons of ligatures, tons of alternates—were really necessary. She decided to tone down the design. By drawing and redrawing lettershapes and carefully considering connections in every single combination, Rushton came up with a connecting script that only needs four alternates.