Forte (typeface)

Forte is a script typeface designed by Austrian commercial artist Carl Reissberger on May 8, 1962,^{[citation needed]} for the Monotype Corporation. It started in Windows Vista and ended in 8.1.^{[citation needed]}

Forte

Category	Script
Classification	Calligraphy
Designer(s)	Carl Reissberger
Foundry	Monotype
Date created	1962
Glyphs	253

Design

The idea for the script face came from the study of plants, individual letterforms being inspired by the long stems and furry heads of the reed.^[1] It is intended to give a contrast to sans-serif and classical modern types.^[1] Adobe suggests the optimal viewing size to 18.0 points.^[2]

Unicode

Forte has characters in the following Unicode ranges:^[3]

Block	Glyphs
Basic Latin	95
Latin-1 Supplement	95
Latin Extended-A	6
Latin Extended-B	1