More fonts
These Quikscript fonts have been made by other talented designers and kindly released under free licences. They are made available here for the sake of showcasing them all in one place, in reverse chronological order. See their original authors’ websites, where applicable, for more information.
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Nishiki-teki Quikscript
| Author | Year | Encoding | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Umihotaru | 2024 | PUA | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
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Shavian: 𐑐
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An impressive font comprising thousands of glyphs and supporting dozens of writing systems, including several constructed scripts (and all three of Kingsley Read’s scripts: Shavian, Quikscript and Readspel). It is the first font, to my knowledge, to support Senior Quikscript using the contextual substitution facilities of OpenType. This means that the Senior letter forms—plus many other variant glyphs designed to connect to each other—appear automatically when typing; the underlying text does not require any special characters because the font itself contains all the “smarts” for Senior Quikscript (except contracted spellings, of course). Available in a single, medium weight.
Quikscript Sans
| Author | Year | Encoding | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perry Hartono | 2019 | PUA | SIL Open Font License 1.1 |
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A font with classic Art Deco flair. The letter-forms are condensed and have relatively high waistlines (x-height). Shavian-style ligatures are provided via the “Standard Ligatures” OpenType feature.
Abbots Morton Experiment
| Author | Year | Encoding | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nathan Sharfi | 2013 | PUA | Apache License 2.0 |
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A handwriting-style font which has a casual look, rather than trying to emulate the appearance of the Quikscript Manual like most. It contains the complete Quikscript alphabet, numerals and punctuation in a consistent style. It also possesses the degree sign and prime marks; these are welcome inclusions which I also happen to recommend for new Quikscript fonts.
Thoth
| Author | Year | Encoding | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paul Tremblay | 2007 | Jerome, QS‑SAMPA, PUA, Thoth Int | SIL Open Font License 1.0 |
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An original handwriting-style font with large counters and apertures which help to lend it excellent legibility and even “texture” on the page. It originally came in three versions, each with a different character mapping: one matching Jerome, one using QS‑SAMPA and one using the Unicode Private Use Area (PUA). The Unicode version has a wide character repertoire (albeit in a different style) comprising the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, since it is based on an existing open-source font, Gentium. A customised version was later made for use with Malt’s International Quikscript spreadsheets, with a unique ASCII character mapping and several ligatures included.
Kingsley
| Author | Year | Encoding | Licence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Bartok (original design) | 2003 | Jerome (modified), PUA | “Freeware” |
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An update of Kwikskript. Historically, this has been the most commonly used Quikscript font. This version is a fork which has had multiple contributors; it seems odd that they chose to maintain this font over the years rather than the newer King Plus, even though it already existed at the time. This means that Kingsley lacks enhancements such as the matching ·, ·, · and ·. In the original (ASCII-mapped) version of Kingsley, those four letters were moved to new codepoints (the same as those described for the “Suave” encoding).