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Mrs Saint Delafield
A free alternative to Edwardian Script.
About Mrs Saint Delafield
Mrs Saint Delafield is Alejandro Paul's pointed-pen script, revived in 2011 from a Charles Bluemlein lettering specimen — steeply slanted, extravagantly capitalized, and almost entirely hairline. Its strokes run long past the baseline, and the capitals behave less like letters than like small flourish drawings.
That lively, ornamental line makes it the closest free match in spirit for Edwardian Script, which shares the same slant and flourish vocabulary. It also gets nearest to Zapfino's whip-thin, airy quality, where the appeal is the stretch of the stroke rather than any weight on the page. And at the delicate end of the copperplate spectrum it substitutes for Vivaldi in settings where ornament matters more than presence. Give it generous line spacing — the flourishes need somewhere to go.
- Designer
- Alejandro Paul
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
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Mrs Saint Delafield is also a free alternative to…
- Edwardian Script → The closest match in spirit — a steeply slanted pointed-pen script with extravagant capitals and lively hairline flourishes, revived from a Charles Bluemlein lettering specimen.
- Jellyka Delicious Cake → A thin, spidery pen script with tall looping ascenders and capitals that sweep far outside the letter box, the closest match for Delicious Cake's delicate, slightly unsteady hairline strokes. It leans further right and reads a touch more formal, like a period letter rather than a bakery sign.
- Vivaldi → All hairline and flourish — the delicate end of the copperplate spectrum, for settings where Vivaldi's ornament matters more than its weight.
- Zapfino → Closest to Zapfino's whip-thin, airy line — long extravagant strokes that stretch well past the baseline and capitals that behave like small flourish drawings.
- Elegy → A pointed-pen script with high contrast and dramatic flourishes that echoes the ceremonial feel of Elegy's formal lettering. Its stroke weight is lighter and the ascenders more exaggerated, which makes it best for large invitation titles and monograms rather than mid-size text.
- Young Baroque → A pointed-pen script with tall, swirling capitals over a small, steep lowercase, close in rhythm to Young Baroque's headline setting. The strokes are more informal and loose, closer to a quick handwritten note than ITC's measured engraving model.
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Display · Body Mrs Saint Delafield + Lora
Letters that hold their nerve
A pairing is a relationship: one voice speaks first, the other answers, and the contrast between them sets the tone for the whole page.
Display · Body Playfair Display + Mrs Saint Delafield