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Informal Font: ITC Informal Roman and Casual Lettering Scope

Identify Martin Wait’s ITC Informal Roman, its mid-century lettering reference and resource name, and distinguish a named font from a general informal brief.

This guide covers ITC’s Informal Roman, also called Informal in its publisher description. If your brief simply asks for an informal tone, treat that as a broader selection task rather than assuming every casual typeface is this named family.

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ORIGINAL PUBLISHER SPECIMEN

Explore Informal Roman at the source.

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LIVE TYPEFACE SPECIMEN

See your words in Dancing Script.

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See your words in Kaushan Script.

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A named lettering design with a mid-century reference

The ITC publisher account credits lettering designer Martin Wait and connects Informal with late-1940s and early-1950s lettering. It emphasizes a casual, spontaneous appearance. Microsoft’s family entry separately identifies the Informal Roman resource and its Infroman.ttf filename. That file identity can help distinguish an installed resource, but it does not prove it is available in every current Office installation.

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Compare a casual title with the information underneath

For an original invitation, set the event name in the actual specimen and keep date, venue and response details in a separate clear setting. Compare a short mixed-case heading with your longest required name. Do not manufacture missing weights with extra outlines before inspecting the real product. If the brief is simply informal rather than this specific family, compare independently designed script options using the same words and judge whether the intended tone remains readable.

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Separate resource names from copied-text appearance

Inspect the publisher specimen for Informal Roman itself and the relevant resource terms for your output. Dancing Script and Kaushan Script here are independent comparisons, not Informal Roman previews. The homepage’s copyable casual Unicode lettering offers character substitutions for text fields; it does not install Infroman.ttf, reproduce Wait’s outlines or establish a font’s presence in your application. Check the actual font menu when editing an existing document.

GOOD QUESTIONS

Your questions, answered.

Does informal always mean the ITC font?

No. It can describe a tone or refer to the specific family covered here. Confirm the resource name when a project requires a particular font.

Is Informal Roman guaranteed to be installed with my Office version?

The historical Microsoft family entry alone does not establish availability in every current installation. Inspect your own font list.

Sources & background

Sources supporting this page’s explanations. Practical examples are our editorial suggestions.