Brushstrike Font

Francesco Canovaro designed Brushstrike as an experiment in energetic gestural brush lettering. Zetafonts describes a system that pairs the main uppercase alphabet with a struck-through alternate set. That drawn alternate treatment is part of the typeface rather than an application’s ordinary text-decoration command.

Read the publisher’s family page for the source account and the edition currently offered. Keep a family name distinct from its particular release, width or optical branch.

The family contains Light and the heavier regular treatment. It has no conventional lowercase alphabet; the additional positions provide alternate capitals. The Light design is also called Lightstrike in the publisher’s account, so those names should be considered together when identifying resources.

Use the original publisher specimen to inspect those features. An alternative can share a broad role without having the same letter shapes, metrics or character coverage.

Set a short uppercase heading and replace selected letters with the struck-through forms. Check that the intended word remains readable before adding extra textures. Compare Light and regular on the actual background, keeping a plain supporting line for essential information.

For independent comparisons, try Knewave and Caveat Brush. Use the same wording and approximate output size. The related style guide provides broader design context.

Use Zetafonts to try the original and investigate the files, styles and terms for your intended workflow. This site does not distribute or serve Brushstrike font software.

The editable alternatives here have their own source profiles and included licenses. For the difference between a font file and copied characters, read Unicode text versus fonts.