Frosted Font: Great Lakes Lettering’s Handwriting & Illustrations

The original Great Lakes Lettering account credits Dathan Boardman and Molly Jacques Erickson. Its foundry history explains that Boardman approached Erickson about turning her calligraphy into fonts and identifies Frosted as their first family, released in 2012. The description relates its delicate handwriting to pointed-pen strokes and pairs it with structured flourishes and wreaths. The catalog separates Frosted from Frosted Illustrations; these are distinct components, not two ordinary text weights.

Compose the actual greeting or name with its punctuation and longest line. Establish the size and placement of any supporting date before adding an illustration. Try a wreath around the finished message and check the space between the letters and surrounding artwork. If the phrase becomes cramped, select a different arrangement or simplify the illustration rather than stretching the writing to fit a predetermined border. Keep the lettering and ornament separately editable.

Record which component provides the text and which provides any decoration. Keep a reference image so another editor does not mistake a symbol-font character for intended ordinary text. Sacramento and Caveat Brush are independent handwritten comparisons, not Frosted previews or matching illustration sets. For a greeting that needs to be pasted as styled characters, the homepage’s Unicode lettering tool serves a different purpose; it does not reproduce Frosted’s pen strokes or supply its illustrations. Use the original family resource for those files and terms.