Sam Parrett is a UK graphic designer who spent years working in the music business, an industry that’s driven by passion. It’s little wonder, then, why his type designs evoke so much emotion. Sam prefers to take a hands-on approach to every design, a process that enables him to breathe character and raw emotion into every brush stroke.
To that end, most of his work is of a brush script nature. Emotive and strong, his work is consistently among the top performers at YouWorkForThem. Every type design he releases carries with it a distinct personality and individual vibe, a boon for any graphic designer who needs a font that is passionate and resilient.
Set Sail Studios is Sam’s online store, a haven for the fonts and design assets he releases into the wild. His work has seen its fair share of success over the years – a trend that shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.
One of his more recent releases is the Silver South Font Duo, a contemporary serif and a spirited script that work beautifully together or alone.
The Serif is a sophisticated didot-style type design, confident in its architecture and the model of high fashion. It’s clean and smart, offering gorgeous all-caps lettering that gets noticed immediately. It’s perfect as a focal point on signage, displays, advertisements, fashion magazine spreads, headlines, logos, product packaging, identity, and branding, but it also plays a lovely fiddle as a secondary accent to its companion Script.
Silver South Script is a free-flowing trendsetter, one with a brazen attitude and a serious love for life. It thrives as the center of attention at any party, yet its vivaciousness is quietly tamed when it acts as an accent to its Serif sibling. Silver South Script is an energetic addition to any design that needs a spark of joy, including social media imagery, logos, merchandise, apparel, event flyers, wedding invitations, and even greeting cards and stationery.
In some ways, this font family is a bit more of a quartet than a duo; Silver South offers both Script and Script Alt, two different versions of the free-flowing script. Particularly for those design projects that need a more realistic and varied handwriting style, mixing characters from the two sets will enable designers to achieve exactly that. Sam also created a set of Silver South Ligatures, easily accessed by typing any a-z lowercase character, or A-L uppercase character, for those who are working without OpenType software. There are also two bonus swashes assigned to the N and M keys for added versatility. (It should be noted that discretionary ligatures can still be turned on for the Script and Script Alt fonts if a designer is using OpenType software.)
The Silver South Font Duo extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, and Pan African Latin, covering English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Indonesian, Filipino, and Malay for global accessibility.
Set Sail Studios currently offers more than 40 products through YouWorkForThem, an inspiring mix of beautiful handcrafted typography that’s full of personality and character. Visit Sam’s portfolio to check out the rest of his work and if you love typography that evokes emotion in the viewer, bookmark it so you won’t miss out on a single one of his type designs.
