Follow Hague’s deliberately nonliteral writing model
Gareth Hague’s Alias account describes wanting a serif script that still suggests writing, despite serifs interrupting a literal written stroke. Named after his daughter, Lily gains its unusual character from a backward incline. The creator says the lowercase connections follow the meeting of thick and thin strokes rather than the mechanics of handwriting.
Inspect the connections without correcting the incline
Set A singular occasion in the original family. Compare the joins and the loops of g and y at a large inspection size, then return to the intended card size. The account connects these details with the angle of the thin joining strokes and the lowercase’s top-heavy construction. Keep the supplied backward lean as the control; do not automatically apply a forward synthetic italic to make it resemble another script.
Place the script line before adding a border
Give Lily one prominent line on a fictional name card and keep practical details in a separate reading face. Inspect the outer strokes against the border after settling the wording. Allura and Sacramento here are independent specimens. The homepage’s portable Unicode name styles provide copyable character substitutions; they do not reproduce Lily’s joining logic, occasional serifs or actual reverse incline.
Your questions, answered.
Who designed this Lily?
Gareth Hague designed the Alias family and named it after his daughter.
Is the backward incline a mistake to fix?
It is a deliberate construction described by the creator. Inspect the original design before applying any additional slant.
Sources & background
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