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PRESENTING ONDISE, OUR LATEST FONT

Have you seen our new font, Ondise? She’s curvy and fluid, with a natural baseline that dances across the page. In addition to a full set of upper and lowercase letters, she has a full set of beginning & end-of-word swashes as well as several alternate ampersands. You’ll see just enough irregularity in the letters & numbers to give an authentic hand-lettered feel. Basically, I designed Ondise so that you could write awesome-looking script that seems as though it came out of a pointed pen instead of a printer! (Or a press, if that’s how you roll. Pun totally intended.)

Of course the best part is that she won’t break the bank. For the cost a real pointed pen, nibs and ink, you can pick up a convincing digital alternative and get started lettering right away.

And like proud moms everywhere, I can’t help but say that I’m super proud of Ondise. She is currently #8 in MyFonts’ Hot New Fonts list. Woo-hoo!

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Comments

  1. I love this font and its nice to see its lower priced than most of the other fonts. I have a hard time spending money on something I am only going to use once however… do you have any sales coming up?

    • Thanks, Crystal! We don’t have any upcoming sales but if you sign up for our email newsletters (on the website) you’ll get first notice. Happy New Year!!!

  2. I am sorry for all the previous comments! I was able to enable the swashes but can only get them to work on the last letter of each word. Is there a trick to get the swash to appear on the first letter?

    Thank you!

    • Hi JoAnn! Thanks for your font passion & purchase of Ondise. It’s lovely to meet you!! I have an easy fix for you — the code in Ondise needs a space or a bit of punctuation in front of that first letter in order to recognize it as the beginning of a word. Once you add that, it should automatically swash for you. Let me know if this doesn’t work, and we can chat a bit more about what might be happening. Thanks again!

  3. Hi!

    Do the swashes work in word(2013) I downloaded the font but cant get it to add the swashes to either the front or end of the word..

    Is there a way to enable it?

    • Hi Rebekah, thank you so much for purchasing Ondise! The swashes do work in Word 2013. There are a couple of things you need to do to turn them on:

      1) Make sure you have a space or bit of punctuation added before the first letter & after the last letter in your word. The application looks for this to say, ‘Aha, she wants a swash here!’
      2) Turn on “Stylistic Set 1” within Word’s advanced/Opentype font options. You can read more about how to access these options ,a href=”https://www.magpiepaperworks.com/wedding-tutorials/using-opentype-fonts-in-microsoft-word/”>here, in a previous blog post.

      After setting everything up, you should see the swashes appear automatically. Hope this helps! Thanks again.

  4. Hi I have recently purchased Ondise and am having a bit of trouble with the Swash! I am using it in Windows 2008 (for Mac) and iDraw. I have tried adding some punctation/spaces at the start of the sentences but that hasn’t worked. Many thanks!

    • Hi Sara, thanks for your purchase – it is lovely to meet you! Sorry to hear about the difficulty; unfortunately the Swash feature is only supported by recent versions of MS Office. They added opentype support in 2010 – any version from then on should allow you to use the swash feature.

  5. Hello there, I absolutely love your font and am so pleased to have found it 🙂 I’m trying to use in Photoshop CS5 but am a bit of a novice so am not sure how to access the swashes or the alternative ampersands in this programme. Do you have any idea how I should do this – layman’s terms very much appreciated thanks

    • Hi Christine, thanks so much for your purchase. It’s lovely to meet you! The happy news is that Opentype features like swashes are really easy to access in Photoshop through the Character palette. Debi Sementelli, another typeface designer has a wonderful video showing how to turn on the features in that palette here: http://youtu.be/-iwjxAcp0P8 . With Ondise, after you turn swashes on you’ll need to make sure you type in a space or bit of punctuation (like a period) before & after each word you’d like to have swashed – Photoshop will look for this in order to say, “Aha! This is where she wants the swash to go.” If you want a different ampersand, just make sure you have “contextual alternates” selected in that palette and then type in &1, &2, &3, etc. You’ll see your ampersand change depending on the number you type after the ampersand itself.