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These fonts are dedicated to the lovers of swashes, and I shall feel vastly flattered if you use them to write your wedding invitations -- wishing you all sorts of good luck and happiness into the bargain!

Tagettes & TagettesPlus are the type of Italian chancery cursive of the 16th and 17th century that is mostly called Cancellaresca. They were developped out of a page of samples created by the French writing master Louis Barbedor around 1650 (unfortunately, the man's name is already taken by another font, so I had to invent a fancy name). Monsieur Barbedor provided such a variety of ps and fs and gs etc. that for a while I got quite lost in that jungle. At long last, I realized, moreover, that swashing too many of the lower case glyphs would make the font look crammed. So, I finally settled on the swashed g -- since that is of my own invention --, as well as a swashed f, and y, sending the swashed b, d, h, k, p, and l off to the alternate font called TagettesPlus.

Both fonts are matching -- on my computer at least --, and you should therefore have no difficulties in making your texts more swashed by selecting some letters and having them displayed as the alternate glyphs.

As usual, there is no number sign in this font, and you'll find a long s in its place. Despite the alternate font, there are still extras in the main font, e.g.
  • a double l on the left bracket
  • a double f on the right bracket
  • a less swashed simple g on the bar sign
  • an alternate r on the masculine ordinator, the 'less than or equal to', and the the 'fi' sign
  • an alternate s on the feminine ordinator, the 'greater than or equal to', and the the 'fl' sign
  • a swash on the underscore
  • a swash on the ASCII tilde
  • and yet another swash on the broken bar sign
TagettesPlus contains neither figures nor punctuation marks, and its set of upper case glyphs is identical with that of the main font. Its lower case letters are the alternate ones. They are mostly swashed, but you'll find a simple f and g there, too, as well as two less space-taking ys.

Update 2007 has somewhat altered the TagettesPlus font, adding a swash to the c, s and v, changing the e and t, and redistributing some of the keys. Here's the actual list:
  • a swashed long s on the number sign
  • a new ending swash for middle zone characters on the period sign
  • a swash on the hyphen
  • another swash on the underscore
  • the font's former e, s, and t on the numbers 1 to 3
  • a second simple y on the number 4
  • and an alternate German sharp s on the sharp s sign.
  • As to the dragon, you'll find it now, not only on the @, but on the µ (micro sign), too.
For the Tagettes main font, there has been a more thorough UPDATE in 2010 redesigning a lot of the composite glyphs, and eliminating some glitches which affected their boundaries (for example the yacute).

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Opening paragraph of the novel The Master And Margarita by Michail A. Bulgakov;
English translation © Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.