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Briston Serif

Name: Briston Serif
Brand: Fenotype
SKU: 6458221
Price: 28.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.5 (5 reviews)

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About

Briston is a bold vintage style serif font with strong character and soft features. Briston is equipped with Swash, Stylistic and Titling alternates as well as with Standard and Discretionary Ligatures. All these features can be accessed by OpenType controls or straight from Character or Glyphs window. The font is PUA encoded so you can use the extra glyphs in most graphic design softwares. In addition Briston has a small set of ornaments and strokes that are found by turning on Swash -feature and typing characters 1-9.

In addition: if you can't use OpenType features, you can use additional Briston Swash, Briston Salt (Stylistic Alternates) and Briston Titl (Titling Alternates) to access the alternates. In these versions you'll find the Alternate in question in place of the Standard Character. So - if you type "A" with Briston Swash, you'll get the Swash A.

Briston is and efficient typeface for headlines, logos and display use. You can also try using Briston all caps in really small sizes by adding some spacing.

If you like Briston you'll probably also like Skillet: https://creativemarket.com/Fenotype/6289831-Skillet-Serif-Typeface-40

and Tomato Ketchup: https://creativemarket.com/Fenotype/6880498-Tomato-Ketchup-Retro-Serif-Font

Please note, when you type with Briston you normally get the standard versions of characters, otherwise the alternate characters would make a mess. To access the alternates you need to have an OpenType-savvy software or fetch them from the software's font controls: Check software specific instructions here: https://support.creativemarket.com/hc/en-us/articles/360037478813-Using-Fonts-with-Special-Features-OpenType-

Or you can install the different versions - Swash, Salt or Titl to get the Swash, Stylistic or Titling Alternate glyphs as the "standard" version and then combine these.

Reviews

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Landon Hurtado

Aug 29, 2023

I used it for a design I’ve been having trouble finding a font for. This font was perfect! Had a perfect style, and I love the thickness. Also the glyph options are amazing!!

Fenotype

Aug 29, 2023

Shop Owner

Replying to Landon Hurtado

Excellent! Thanks a lot for the review.

Cierra Michelle

Jun 20, 2022

I’ve tried to use this font multiple times and it is not as described. It’s only basic fonts.

Fenotype

Jun 20, 2022

Shop Owner

Replying to Cierra Michelle

Hi Cierra. The Alternate characters are inside the font. You need to access them from OpenType controls or from Characters / Glyphs -window. But if that seems difficult, I've now updated Briston with Briston Swash, Briston Salt (Stylistic Alternates) and Briston Titl (Titling Alternes) versions.

Samantha Hollice

Mar 11, 2022

Is there a file that is missing? I don't get the same fonts as the photos presents AT ALL.

Fenotype

Mar 21, 2023

Shop Owner

Replying to Samantha Hollice

Hi Samantha, Briston is an OpenType font and the features you see in the specimen pictures are inside the font. I promise you, every character shown is there. I'll DM you further instructions. **Edit.** Any news Samantha? Did you find the alternates from the font? I've now added also old school style versions of alternates - as separate fonts

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