It has been my experience that scripts and hands are generally better selling typefaces (measured by unit sales, rather than dollar value) regardless of the foundry, designer, or distributor. What T-26 is about has slowly changed (...perhaps even grown up?) over the years.

Tiff, the script phenomenon is huge and multi-faceted: Grunge, post-structuralism, "non-professional" buyers and font makers, retro, post-print; -- many reasons for it.

Is it as big in Europe as in North America?

Jim, that list is scary. It says more about T-26's clientele than them (I hope)...

BTW, what do you guys think about that Tension?
I mean compared to de Groot's Punten.

hhp

Punten looks better executed, more coherent.
Tension is just a serif face with random spikes.
IMHO.

It's dispiriting that big retail sites are getting a market-driven look that is increasingly "non typographic".

(This is not meant as a diss of script typefaces, but they ARE the least typographic of type genres, in that they don't offer the sophisticated "palette" that a traditional serif family does.)