Reviewing League Script: A Whimsical Script Font Perfect for Storytelling
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In This Issue…
How to Use League Script for Logo and Branding
- Fonts: League Script
- Design/Marketing Idea: Storytelling with Strips and Panels
- Color Inspiration: a Scene from Helsinki, Finland
Font of the Week
About League Script
When I was growing up, my friend Lindsay had the most beautiful handwriting. Whenever we got yearbooks, she would bring a pack of color gel pens. People lined up to get her to sign yearbooks. She was creative and wrote the heartfelt message with cutesy, heart-filled characteristic cursive letters. She would write pages and pages of these glittery, thoughtful messages.
The name League Script is a little misleading. It might have made you think that this font has a connection to sports. The designer of League script has said it is somewhere between a handwritten letter from the 1920s and a high school girlfriend’s love note. Upon a close examination, we’ll find flirty flares and thin, ball-point pen-like strokes with round caps.
Font Details
- Enlarged dots
- Uneven baseline in capital letters
- Thin strokes with round caps
General Usage Tips
- Suitable for text at large font size
- One weight
- Avoid using at small sizes, like paragraphs
- Pairing: Helvetica
Specific Usage Tips
How to use League Script for logo?
- Communicates softness, whim, casualness, intimate
- Not very suitable for logo, the thin strokes break when displayed small. Logos need to be legible in small sizes.
How to use League Script for marketing and branding?
- Looks fantastic in large sizes because of the casualness and ease
- Consider this font for showy marketing pieces
Design Idea of the Week
Storytelling with Strips and Panels
The first modern comic book, Famous Funnies, was released in the US in 1933. The series was a hit. At one point, it sold 180,000 of its 200,000 print run. That’s 90%! Folks loved this new and refreshing format. Comic book panels take us around the scene, showing us every possible angle. Even when we don’t see everything in the panels, it’s magical. We have room to imagine and muse about what happens between the scenes.
Examples of good stripe and panel ideas: Roy Lichtenstein, Scott McCloud, r/comics, @StartupIllustr
Can you incorporate strips and panels into your marketing projects?
Color Inspirations of the Week
This week we have a beautiful photo from Helsinki, Finland. Thank you Alexis for contributing!
Interested in contributing an image? email me your image for a chance to be featured!
Creative Prompt
Can you create a mother’s day graphic with League Script, strips and panels, and the color palette from this week?
Thank you
…for reading and hanging out here this week! League Script is available here.
