Vena Amoris®
An endearing formal script with clever features.
Designed by Kathryn Podorsky
My dear Edmond,
I found upon my return home to dinner yesterday, your letter informing me of your affection for Annie and asking that we confide her future happiness to your keeping...
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New Orleans, June 25, 1895
My dear Edmond,
I found upon my return home to dinner yesterday, your letter informing me of your affection for Annie and asking that we confide her future happiness to your keeping…
This excerpt was taken from a letter written by designer Kathryn Podorsky’s great-great-grandfather, Lucien Doize, in response to Edmond’s request to marry his daughter, Annie. The letter was not only beautiful contextually, but exquisitely penned and epitomized the delightful charm of the New Orleans people of the time.
Vena Amoris, or “Vein of Love” refers to a phrase coined by Henry Swinburne in his A Treatise of Espousal published in 1686. Vena Amoris also refers to the fourth finger on the left hand which was traditionally believed to contain a vein running directly to the heart, hence “the ring finger.”
As a digital font, Vena Amoris boasts an extensive Latin-based character set that supports 310 languages. Also included are stylistic and contextual alternates, ligatures, swash variants, oldstyle figures, and roman numerals and calligraphic words that will undoubtedly bring a dynamic quality to any setting.
All of those extras are driven by cleverly applied OpenType features allowing you to add harmony and calligraphic beauty to your layout.
Features
Additional features include: Kerning, Fractions, Standard Ligatures, Contextual Ligatures, Localized Forms, Ordinals, Case-Sensitive Forms, Capital Spacing, and Stylistic Sets.
Glyphs
Basic Latin 94
Latin-1 Supplement 95
Latin Extended-A 127
Latin Extended-B 46
IPA Extensions 6
Spacing Modifier Letters 9
Combining Diacritical Marks 18
Greek and Coptic 1
Latin Extended Additional 63
General Punctuation 16
Currency Symbols 1
Letterlike Symbols 5
Mathematical Operators 12
Geometric Shapes 2
Alphabetic Presentation Forms 6
Latin Extended-D 2
Additional Glyphs 1
Vena Amoris supports 310 languages. View our language support page to see which.