LeftyNote Beta
Left-handed marker lettering. Regular + Bold. Version 1.002 Beta 2.
- Version
- 1.002
- Edition
- Web specimen
- Released
- 2026-10-20
A deliberate static family
Intent, use, and provenance
Rounded strokes, uneven pressure and restrained pen accidents preserve the movement of left-handed writing. LeftyNote suits personal notes, expressive headlines, classroom materials and informal annotations.
Regular 400 and Bold 700 share the same handwriting vocabulary. Contextual alternates vary repeated letters and figures; ligatures and stylistic sets offer further gestures.
Lining, oldstyle, proportional and tabular figures sit alongside fractions, small numerals, combining marks and selected Greek and mathematical symbols. Mathematical signs retain intentional proportional widths; there is no advanced OpenType MATH layout table.
Notes in motion
Scale and rhythm
Figures built for systems
Numeric features: dnom / frac / numr / ordn / pnum / tnum
23 available features
caltContextual alternatesRepeated letters and figures change gesture in context.
caseCapital punctuationCapital punctuation comparison from the exact-build private beta proof.
ccmpGlyph composition / decompositionPerforms required substitutions used as a basis for shaping. Core shaping feature - disabling may degrade marks/accents.
dligDiscretionary ligaturesDiscretionary ligatures comparison from the exact-build private beta proof.
dnomDenominatorsSmall figures for the bottom of fractions.
fracFractionsReplace slash-separated figures with composed fractions.
kernKerningKerning comparison from the exact-build private beta proof.
ligaStandard ligaturesJoined forms preserve the marker gesture in common letter sequences.
1777 glyphs
Encoded repertoire / 2
Encoded repertoire / 3
19 verified languages
Binary facts
- Family
- LeftyNote Beta
- Internal version
- Version 1.002 Beta 2
- PostScript name
- LeftyNoteBeta-Regular
- Vendor
- AP.CX
- Axes
- 0
- Named instances
- 2
- Glyphs
- 1777
- OpenType features
- 23
- Units per em
- 1000
- Ascender / descender
- 1110 / -360
- Designer
- Thierry Charbonnel
- Edition
- Web specimen
Evidence pending
- Release QA evidence was not supplied to this preview.
Metadata and specimen claims are derived from the selected binary set.
AP.CX Fair Font License
Release notes
- Version 1.002 Beta 2. Family: LeftyNote Beta. Regular 400 / Bold 700.
- Stronger Bold, rebuilt OpenType features and corrected capital parentheses and brackets; plus, minus and equals remain unchanged.
- Public beta available at 50% off during development. Purchases include the final version under the same license tier.
Known issues
- The Bold e.alt2 retains the earlier lighter drawing; this is a documented beta limitation.
- Mathematical sign widths are intentionally proportional. No OpenType MATH layout table.
- Preview & Print embedding (fsType 4) is retained; editable-document acceptance remains pending.
- Application support beyond recorded checks is not certified.
Credits
- Design: Thierry Charbonnel. Publisher: AP.CX. Vendor: apcx.
- Copyright © 2003, Thierry Charbonnel. All rights reserved.
- https://ap.cx / https://ap.cx/font-license
Rights and support
AP.CX Fair Font License
Keep the gesture.
LeftyNote Beta / 1.002