This is going to be a weekly installment here. If you know me, you know I am happily addicted to fonts. Part of my daily routine online is to visit My Fonts and browse what Hot New Fonts they’re promoting, or to help identify fonts in their What The Font?! forum. I often find myself adding to my shopping cart while there. But who can blame me?! So many fonts, so many possibilities!
I thought I would share some of my favorite fonts, and perhaps what I’ve learned about fonts along the way here once a week. I have a strong affinity for fancy scripts with lots of opentype features, so if these posts seem partial to those, I make no apologies! 
This week I want to discuss a brand new favorite! I’ve yet to use it in a project, but the right idea will come along and she will be put to use.
Meet: Melany Lane
Melany Lane is a whimsical hand drawn font from Yellow Design Studio. They were having a great sale for both weights of Melany Lane, as well as ornaments and seamless patterns for a low price! So I of course took advantage. I love opentype fonts and the ability to make each word your own by playing with alternate features.
I plan to put Miss Melany Lane to work very soon!
Hey there! have you had a chance to play with this font? how do you make the font look like the 2nd and 3rd image? regular typing does not look like this but i can’t figure out how to make it more like the initial and terminal forms…. any help is greatly appreciated!
Hi Gibby,
I have played with this font! I love it. To access all the alternate characters in fonts like this, you need opentype capable software (Illustrator and Indesign are the best, and photoshop can access some of the features)
If you have any of these programs, then you can access the glyph panels and the opentype menus. A quick google search of “Opentype, glyph palette, illustrator, indesign” etc will pop up some quick and/or detailed tutorials on the subject to give you a better idea of how to better use opentype fonts.
I will probably do a post about this at some point in the future!
I hope this helped, at least a little bit!!