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Edwardian Script vs Young Baroque
Two formal scripts from the same Monotype/ITC catalogue, both built on the look of pointed-pen handwriting. Ed Benguiat's ITC Edwardian Script (1994) is a fluid, lyrical copperplate meant to read as warm handwriting, while Doyald Young's Young Baroque (Letraset, mid-1980s) is a showier baroque script whose spiralling capitals do most of the talking.
Edwardian Script is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Mrs Saint Delafield, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Edwardian Script → Young Baroque is a commercial font, so it is shown here in Pinyon Script, its closest free alternative. All free alternatives to Young Baroque →
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- Edwardian Script takes its thick-and-thin contrast from steel pointed-pen writing and ships in two styles, Regular and Bold, so it has a little weight range to work with.
- Young Baroque comes in a single style only: capitals with generous spirals over small, heavily slanted lowercase, which makes it a display face rather than a text script.
- Young Baroque's lowercase is small and tightly inclined, so lines of it stay compact but lose legibility quickly below headline size.
- Both are commercial fonts sold through MyFonts under Monotype licensing; Young Baroque's single style starts around $29.99 for desktop, and web, app, and large-company licences are priced separately for both.
Edwardian Script
Reach for Edwardian Script when you want a flowing, legible formal script for wedding stationery, menus, and invitations where the whole line should read as graceful handwriting.
Young Baroque
Reach for Young Baroque when a single flourished initial or short headline needs to carry the room, as on certificates, labels, and monogram-style branding.