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Scotch Display

Designer:Neil Summerour
Initial Release:2017
Current Release:2019
Styles:12
Collection Overview
Scotch Display Compressed
Scotch Display Condensed
Scotch Display
Available Writing Systems
Available Styles
LightLight ItalicRomanItalicMediumMedium ItalicSemiBoldSemiBold ItalicBoldBold ItalicFatFat Italic
OpenType Features
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Standard Ligaturesliga
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Small Caps
Small Capssmcp
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Fractionsfrac
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Superscriptsups
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C2H5OH
Scientific Inferiorssinf
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1st 2nd 3rd
Ordinalsordn
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[H] @ H¿
Case-Sensitive Formscase
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$1259
Stylistic Set 1ss01
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Specimens
Light72px
Cask Strength Whisky
Light Italic72px
Lingering Smoky Finish
Roman72px
Oloroso Sherry Cask
Italic72px
Limited Edition Release
Medium72px
Time Honoured Craft
Medium Italic72px
Highland Single Malt
SemiBold72px
Floor Malted Barley
SemiBold Italic72px
Heather Honey Notes
Bold72px
Single Cask Bottling
Bold Italic72px
Speyside Single Malt
Fat72px
Pot Still Distilled
Fat Italic72px
Sherry Cask Finish
Italic48px
True Scotch whisky begins with three quiet ingredients: barley, water, and time. The grain is malted, mashed, fermented, and twice distilled in copper pot stills before resting for years in oak casks. Nothing is rushed, nothing is added, and every drop carries the patient signature of its making.
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From the heather-strewn Highlands to the windswept shores of Islay, Scotland's whisky regions each speak in a different voice. Some whiskies whisper of sea spray and peat smoke; others sing of orchard fruit and honey. The map of Scotch is, in truth, a map of Scotland itself.
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To taste a great single malt is to read a landscape in liquid form. The first nose may carry orchard fruit and warm vanilla, the gift of decades spent in American oak; or it may surge forward with sea brine and bonfire smoke, the unmistakable signature of an Islay malt drawn from peat-blackened earth. On the palate, the spirit unfolds in layers: heather honey gives way to dried fruit and spice, then to the toasted oak that frames every flavor. A Speyside malt may finish with elegant restraint, all soft fruit and gentle warmth, while a Highland whisky lingers with deeper, earthier notes. The finish itself is its own chapter, sometimes brief and bright, sometimes long and meditative, leaving traces of smoke or sweetness that fade slowly over many minutes. No two bottles tell the same story, and no two drinkers will read them the same way. That, in the end, is the quiet pleasure of Scotch.
Description
Clean, crisp, rational, familiar, modern… serifed. Positype Scotch reaches back to history just enough to produce something warm and easy on the eyes. No corners were cut, no quick tricks… this type suite was drawn for specificity: Text, Display, and Deck… ALL in 3 widths that now include Condensed and Compressed. Each unique, each inter-connected, each part of the whole.

Scotch Text is offered in 6 weights with matching true italics. Drawn for economy and an easy read, the family is a workhorse for long-passage text settings. 4 sets of numerals, well-proportioned small caps, and a plethora of extras round out each font.

Scotch Display is not just a thinner version of Scotch Text wrapped in a higher contrast. Display sports shorter ascenders and descenders, a unique footprint, great contrast, and a more folded, calligraphic italics. Display subtly oozes sophistication and provides an attractive, exhuberant companion to Scotch Text.

Scotch Deck rounds out the offering by choosing to be specific to its offering. Deck utlitizes traits and proportions shared between Text and Display, but alters its overall mass to balance out the needs for settings that require subheadlines, callouts and other similar uses. Essentially, something not so high-contrast and not so stress dense that works great for middle-sizes.
Supported Languages
313 Supported Languages
ACZAcheron
ACEAchinese
ACHAcholi
AARAfar
AFRAfrikaans
AINAinu
GAHAlekano
ALEAleut
ALQAlgonquin
AMCAmahuaca
AMRAmarakaeri
AMIAmis
ANWAnaang
DGLAndaandi
AUDAnuta
NJOAo Naga
ARGAragonese
AAEArbëreshë Albanian
AATArvanitika Albanian
CNIAsháninka
PRQAshéninka Perené
AIIAssyrian Neo-Aramaic
ASAAsu
BANBalinese
BJNBanjar
BFABari
BAKBashkir
EUSBasque
BTDBatak Dairi
BTXBatak Karo
BTMBatak Mandailing
BTSBatak Simalungun
BBCBatak Toba
BELBelarusian
BEMBemba
BEZBena
BIKBikol
BISBislama
GAXBorana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
BOSBosnian
BREBreton
BUGBuginese
CBUCandoshi-Shapra
COTCaquinte
HNSCaribbean Hindustani
CBRCashibo-Cacataibo
CATCatalan
CEBCebuano
AYRCentral Aymara
CKBCentral Kurdish
CBIChachi
CHAChamorro
CBKChavacano
CICChickasaw
CGGChiga
CSAChiltepec Chinantec
CJKChokwe
CHKChuukese
CIMCimbrian
CONCofán
SWCCongo Swahili
CORCornish
COSCorsican
MUSCreek
CRHCrimean Tatar
HRVCroatian
DANDanish
DHVDehu
NLDDutch
AAQEastern Abnaki
AEREastern Arrernte
HAEEastern Oromo
EBUEmbu
ENGEnglish
ESEEse Ejja
EPOEsperanto
FAOFaroese
FIJFijian
FILFilipino
FINFinnish
FRAFrench
FURFriulian
GQAGa'anda
GLGGalician
GANGan Chinese
LUGGanda
CABGarifuna
DEUGerman
ALNGheg Albanian
GILGilbertese
GNIGooniyandi
GUXGourmanchéma
GCFGuadeloupean Creole French
GUZGusii
HATHaitian
HNIHani
HILHiligaynon
WINHo-Chunk
HOPHopi
HUSHuastec
ISLIcelandic
IDOIdo
ILOIloko
SMNInari Sami
INDIndonesian
IGSInterglossa
INAInterlingua
ILEInterlingue
GLEIrish
ITAItalian
MZIIxcatlán Mazatec
JAMJamaican Creole English
JPNJapanese
JAVJavanese
DYOJola-Fonyi
QUCK'iche'
KEAKabuverdianu
MWPKala Lagaw Ya
KALKalaallisut
KLNKalenjin
KAMKamba
KQNKaonde
KRLKarelian
CSBKashubian
KEKKekchí
XNZKenzi
KHAKhasi
KIKKikuyu
KMBKimbundu
KINKinyarwanda
KTUKituba
KONKongo
KOOKonzo
KUAKuanyama
FKVKven Finnish
KSHKölsch
LLDLadin
LADLadino
LTGLatgalian
LATLatin
LIJLigurian
LITLithuanian
LMOLombard
NDSLow German
DSBLower Sorbian
LUALuba-Lulua
SMJLule Sami
LUOLuo
LTZLuxembourgish
VMWMakhuwa
MGHMakhuwa-Meetto
KDEMakonde
YMKMakwe
MLGMalagasy
ZLMMalay
MLTMaltese
MNKMandinka
MFVMandjak
KNFMankanya
GLVManx
SWBMaore Comorian
MRIMaori
ARNMapudungun
MCFMatsés
ULKMeriam Mir
MERMeru
OTEMezquital Otomi
XRGMinang
MINMinangkabau
MWLMirandese
MOHMohawk
CNRMontenegrin
MFEMorisyen
UMUMunsee
MWFMurrinh-Patha
WMWMwani
MIQMískito
NAGNaga Pidgin
NDONdonga
NAPNeapolitan
ZDJNgazidja Comorian
NIUNiuean
FIANobiin
NOTNomatsiguenga
NDENorth Ndebele
KMRNorthern Kurdish
HEANorthern Qiandong Miao
SMENorthern Sami
UZNNorthern Uzbek
OJBNorthwestern Ojibwa
NORNorwegian
NOVNovial
NYANyanja
NYNNyankole
OCIOccitan
CHJOjitlán Chinantec
ORCOrma
ORHOroqen
OSSOssetian
PAUPalauan
PLZPaluan
PAMPampanga
TOPPapantla Totonac
PAPPapiamento
NSOPedi
PCDPicard
CPUPichis Ashéninka
PMSPiemontese
PISPijin
PIUPintupi-Luritja
PPLPipil
PONPohnpeian
POLPolish
PORPortuguese
POTPotawatomi
TSZPurepecha
QUEQuechua
RARRarotongan
ROHRomansh
ROORotokas
RUNRundi
RWKRwa
SAQSamburu
SMOSamoan
SAGSango
SBPSangu
SRMSaramaccan
SRDSardinian
SCOScots
GLAScottish Gaelic
SEYSecoya
SEHSena
SRPSerbian
SEISeri
CRSSeselwa Creole French
KSBShambala
SJWShawnee
SHPShipibo-Conibo
SNAShona
SCNSicilian
SZLSilesian
SLKSlovak
SLVSlovenian
XOGSoga
SOMSomali
SNKSoninke
NBLSouth Ndebele
AYCSouthern Aymara
HMSSouthern Qiandong Miao
SMASouthern Sami
SOTSouthern Sotho
SPASpanish
SRNSranan Tongo
EKKStandard Estonian
LVSStandard Latvian
ZSMStandard Malay
SUNSundanese
SWHSwahili
SSWSwati
SWESwedish
GSWSwiss German
TGLTagalog
TAHTahitian
DAVTaita
CTDTedim Chin
TEOTeso
TETTetum
TDTTetun Dili
TIVTiv
TPITok Pisin
TKLTokelau
TOKToki Pona
TONTonga
TOITonga
ALSTosk Albanian
MTOTotontepec Mixe
TSOTsonga
TSNTswana
TUMTumbuka
TURTurkish
TUKTurkmen
TZHTzeltal
TZOTzotzil
AOZUab Meto
UIGUighur
SJUUme Sami
POVUpper Guinea Crioulo
HSBUpper Sorbian
VECVenetian
VEPVeps
VOLVolapük
VROVõro
WLNWalloon
WAEWalser
WYBWangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa
WARWaray
WBPWarlpiri
GUCWayuu
CYMWelsh
GAZWest Central Oromo
ABEWestern Abnaki
FRYWestern Frisian
WIMWik-Mungkan
WRHWiradjuri
WOLWolof
XHOXhosa
AMEYanesha'
YAOYao
YAPYapese
YIJYindjibarndi
YUAYucateco
ZULZulu
ZROZáparo
Language support is predicted based on codepoint coverage and not guaranteed to be accurate.
Glyphs
Medium
U+0041 / A
Outlines
700CH
498XH
0BL
Latin Uppercase26
A
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C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
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Latin Lowercase26
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i
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Latin Uppercase Accented101
À
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Â
Ã
Ä
Å
Ā
Ă
Ą
Æ
Ǽ
Ç
Ć
Ĉ
Ċ
Č
Ď
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Ò
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Ř
Ś
Ŝ
Ş
Š
Ș
Ţ
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Ŧ
Ù
Ú
Û
Ü
Ũ
Ū
Ŭ
Ů
Ű
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Ý
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Þ
Latin Lowercase Accented104
à
á
â
ã
ä
å
ā
ă
ą
æ
ǽ
ç
ć
ĉ
ċ
č
ď
đ
ð
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ë
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ĕ
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ę
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ƒ
ĝ
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ġ
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ŧ
ù
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ũ
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ů
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ÿ
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þ
Numerals10
0
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Currency7
$
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Fractions7
¼
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Punctuation & Symbols65
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°
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²
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·
¹
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Mathematical Symbols14
×
÷
Superscript & Subscript17
Geometric Shapes & Misc1
Greek Lowercase2
μ
π
Alternates1
Denominators10
Standard Ligatures15
Numerators10
Ordinals26
Stylistic Set 0119
This typeface contains a total of 461 glyphs
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