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Stephen Rapp

American calligrapher, letterer, and type designer (b. 1953, Indianapolis, IN) located in Lakewood, OH, and/or Kent, OH. As a lettering artist for American Greetings since 2000, he has designed and developed numerous proprietary fonts. He specializes in beautiful script typefaces. Stephen's commercial fonts can be found in both Veer and P22/IHOF collections. Creator of these fonts:

• Baghadeer (2013). A very tall ronde typeface.
• Bramble (2005, P22): an organic hand-printed font family.
• ChaiTea (2007, P22): a flowing script.
• Chatter: hand lettering for a card design that was both humorous and trendy. Proprietary.
• DeSoto (2009-2012) is a family of four engraved typefaces based on a few letters from a 1958 DeSoto magazine ad. Joe Newton at Veer created butterfly ornaments and swashes.
• Hiatus (2010-2013): a connected chancery hand.
• Hollie Hobbie: proprietary hand-printed face.
• Memoir (2008): an elegant connected script.
• Montague Script (2008): a connected calligraphic brush script that won a "Certificate of Excellence in Type Design" award in the 55th Annual Type Directors Club Exhibition and an award at TDC2 2009. In 2014, it was followed by Montague Script Bold.
• New Cuisine (2012). Sure to be a winner, this upright signage script oozes warmth and charm.
• Raniscript: 2009, upright connected script) from 2009.
• Shoebop (2006, 2012): retro connected lettering / signage face.
• Slapjack (2013). A broad-edged calligraphic script.
• Tai Chi (2003, P22): a calligraphic oriental simulation font.
• Custom fonts by Rapp were created for American Greetings, AGI and a few private clients. As of 2014, they include Longhand Plain&Swash, Chick Flick, Ciao Bella, AGI Typewriter, AGI Serif, AGI Hand, Chickadee, Madeline, Rough Draft Pro, Cafe Noire, Cantoni Pro, Milk and Honey, Line Dance and Vickery Script.

  Typefaces from 2015: Spry Roman.

  Typefaces from 2016: Solantra (a great script).

See also here. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Creative Market link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
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