Reliant Shadow by Iza of Intellecta Design is a free calligraphic script with dramatic looping capitals and a fine outlined shadow. Its sweeping strokes change sharply in width, giving the lettering a formal, engraved quality rather than a soft handwritten look. Long curls and deep flourishes produce an unusually broad, ornate silhouette.
It can turn wedding invitations or beauty packaging into decorative penwork with a lightly dimensional effect. It also suits fashion editorials and music posters. Across these uses, the layered linework lets the words function as ornament as much as lettering.
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Reliant Limited Free version was created by Intellecta Design. It is a non-commercial version containing a limited subset extracted from the original font.
To purchase the original Reliant font and commercial licenses, visit:
https://www.myfonts.com/collections/reliant-font-intellecta-design
Intellecta Design researches and develops fonts based on historical forms. This font is free software for personal and non-commercial use only. Donations for historical studies on the history of letters, calligraphy, and typography are accepted.
The font may be distributed without limitation if it is attached in a ZIP file together with this text. For commercial use, you must register this software by sending US$15.00 to the following PayPal account:
estiliza@gmail.com
After that, send an email to:
paulo.w.designer@gmail.com
A legal permission to use the font will then be sent to you.
The font may also be used without restrictions if you place a link to the creator’s website on your website.
Reliant is a free interpretation of BernhardSchoenschrift, originally designed by Lucien Bernhard, and Liberty, designed by W.T. Sniffin for ATF in 1927 based on Lucien Bernhard’s original designs.
This OpenType version includes complete Greek and Latin alphabets and complete Central European, Vietnamese, Baltic, and Turkish character sets, including all diacritical signs, punctuation marks, and additional characters belonging to these ranges.
The font also includes a Cyrillic alphabet, which was corrected with assistance from Dmitry Greshnev of Green Type for Cyrillic readers.
The font includes stylistic and contextual alternates, discretionary ligatures, swashes, tail ornaments, fractions, and number ligatures. These features provide letterform variations, and the number ligatures are attributed to Iza W.
The font contains over 800 glyphs, accessible through software such as InDesign, Illustrator, QuarkXPress, and other applications.