About LH Toast

Toast is a display script family built somewhere between formal calligraphy, storefront lettering and slightly overconfident magazine typography. Rather than reviving a specific historical style, the project explores what happens when different calligraphic influences collide inside the same system — mixing Spencerian handwriting, copperplate references and broad nib experiments into something sharper, stranger and more contemporary.

The result balances elegance with tension. High-contrast curves, exaggerated swashes and abrupt cuts create a rhythm that feels refined, but never too polite. Toast is expressive by nature, though it remains surprisingly open and legible for a script family designed to occasionally steal the entire layout.

The family is available in 10 weights and split into two complementary styles: Script and Italic. Script features fully connected lettering with flowing joins and continuous movement, while Italic disconnects the construction into more editorial standalone forms, calmer, cleaner, slightly more disciplined, at least in appearance.

A large set of alternates and swash variations allows the texture to shift from understated luxury to full dramatic entrance depending on the context, the layout, or the designer’s level of self-control.

Toast was designed for magazine titles, luxury identities, fashion campaigns, wedding stationery, cosmetics packaging, restaurant branding, perfume visuals, hotel identities and editorial art direction. Basically anywhere typography is expected to feel elegant, expressive, or just a little too confident for its own good.

Designers:

Léon Hugues, Manuel De Lignères

Year: 2026

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Tagged with: <Script - Brush> <Script - Calligraphic> <High Contrast> <Alternates> <Italic> <Ligatures> <Variable> <Display> <Decorative> <Epoques> <Experimental> <Friendly> <Playful>