Brush Script vs Script & Lettering

Script & Lettering is the cross-discipline counterpart of Brush Script — shares the flowing connected calligraphic letterforms of script type.

Type specimen — Brush Script (Casual script); shown in Pacifico (OFL)

Brush Script

An informal connected script that imitates quick, confident strokes of a paint or ink brush, full of swelling weight and a relaxed bounce. The 1942 ATF original defined the casual, hand-lettered look of mid-century advertising.

  • Swelling, tapering strokes mimicking a loaded brush
  • Connected letters on a bouncing, informal baseline
  • Rough, painterly terminal edges
  • Single-story, casual letterforms
  • Moderate slope with energetic, gestural rhythm
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Original illustration evoking the Script & Lettering look

Script & Lettering

Flowing cursive and decorative hand-lettering tattoos, from elegant copperplate script to bold flourished words and names rendered as their own art form.

  • Flowing cursive connected strokes
  • Stroke-weight contrast (thick and thin)
  • Decorative swashes and flourishes
  • Consistent slant and baseline
  • Word-as-subject composition
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At a glance

Brush ScriptScript & Lettering
Era1942–present1900s–present
DisciplineTypographyTattoo
RegionUnited States, GlobalUnited States, Global
FamilyScriptIllustrative
Formal traitsbrush, connected-script, slanted, casualcalligraphic, flowing, flourished, legible

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