As a “modest type foundry in Bandung, Indonesia,” Pana Type & Studio focuses primarily on typography, calligraphy, and graphic design. Much of their work features handwritten script fonts that are rich in personality and individuality.
When it comes to adding a “personal” touch to any graphic design project, handcrafted typefaces offer an organic, hand-made visual appeal that really speaks to the viewer. Even if you didn’t actually write the words by your own hand, the world doesn’t know that. A handwritten font adds a human touch, which is especially useful for design projects that need to approach the viewer on a more personal level, including greeting cards, invitations, labels, apparel, and merchandise.
In terms of advertising, particularly with product packaging and labels, handwritten type designs tend to evoke a more powerful emotional response in the viewer. That emotional response breeds interest and attraction, and ultimately, increased sales or business. Handwritten fonts do well in product packaging and logos for all sorts of things, but they’re especially effective on organic food products, natural cosmetics, and advertisements for fashion-based companies.
Handwritten script fonts are something Pana Type & Studio does especially well, and they consistently offer typefaces that are charming, unique, and personable. One of their more recent releases is Thistails Font Duo, a font family that pairs a handwritten script with a handcrafted all-caps sans serif.
Thistails Font Duo brings that familiar and favored vintage appeal to contemporary letterforms. These days, what’s old is new and Thistails Font Duo brings an organic, antiquated flair to everything it touches.
Both the sans and script lettersets are offered in a regular finish, featuring smooth and solid forms written in ink. If you’re going for a more aged and weathered look in your work, they’re also available in a rough finish that adds a subtly distressed texture without compromising the architecture of the letters themselves. Particularly for crafting old-timey labels, logos, and product packaging, Thistails Rough is a beautiful addition to any “antique” design project.
For extra flair, Thistails Swash makes it easy to add the perfect finishing touches to signage, labels, logos, and menus.
While the fonts in Thistails Font Duo were designed to work together as a team, they both work well on their own in other projects. Thistails Font Duo is well suited to everything from apparel design to merchandise, logos, advertising, social media images, nature photography, stationery, branding, identity, displays, signage, menus, wedding invitations, greeting cards, postcards, and more.
The Thistails script offers standard ligatures, localized forms, and stylistic alternates. Thistails Font Duo extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Pan African Latin, Dutch, Afrikaans, Latin Ligatures, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Portuguese, Romansh, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, and Swiss German for international accessibility.
Pana Type & Studio currently offers six products through YouWorkForThem, and we’re always looking forward to their new releases. If you love working with handwritten script fonts, visit their portfolio to check out the rest of their work and bookmark it so you can keep up on their latest additions!
