ARDWAN SCRIPT [LIDZBARSKI]
Ardwan Script is based on the Mandaic hand of Mark Lidzbarski, the scholar whose pioneering work first carried these texts into print. I followed the movement of his writing, the way the letters connect and flow as if set down in a single breath, and built it into a living, cursive typeface. Script is made for the personal and the expressive: invitations, dedications, anything that should feel written rather than set. The demand of a connected Mandaic script is that every join behave correctly while still feeling spontaneous, and holding that tension is the craft. I design it from within the tradition, working from how the hand actually moves, not by imitating handwriting from the outside.
