TeX Gyre Chorus, by Bogusław Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki of the GUST e-foundry, is a calligraphic chancery script with a permanent italic slant. It comes out of the LaTeX world, where it goes by z003 and stands in as a Zapf Chancery alternative, and that lineage shows in how deliberately the curves are cut. The download is a single Regular, which actually simplifies specification: one weight, nothing to second-guess. Chancery hands were written with a broad nib held at an angle, and you can read that angle in the thick and thin of these letters. Set it large enough that the slant can breathe, since crowded small sizes waste what it does well.

Where it earns its keep: wedding invitation suites with matching place cards and menu inserts, LaTeX typeset poetry chapbooks and thesis title pages, editorial pull quotes that need to feel handwritten without looking sloppy, and certificate or award lettering for recital programmes. Language coverage runs past 322 Latin-based languages, so a bilingual ceremony programme or a multilingual anthology will not send you hunting for substitute glyphs mid-layout. Pair it with a quiet serif or a plain sans for body copy, and let Chorus handle the names, titles, and the one line you want read aloud.

The font carries the GUST Font License (LPPL 1.3c), an open license, so you can use it in personal and commercial work, and the files download directly from this page.