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Figure 1. Above is a true monoline font with open paths (EMS Allure). Below is a glyph in broad nib pen style (Zapfino). Figure 2. Skeleton drawing of a true monoline font. Figure 3. Starting with just a skeleton you can quickly create closed contour, double contour and expanded contour versions of a font. Note that the onscreen representation of the closed contour glyph is not the same as would be produced by a compatible cutter/plotter because such cutter/plotters know to ignore the final closing vector. So their rendition will look like the skeleton. Figure 4. The skeleton font in .SVG format. Figure 5. Classical – Monoline Script Font with OpenType ligatures, alternate glyph and swashes (by 177BC).