Filmotype Kingston was released by Filmotype in the early to mid-1950s as part of its handlettered script styles and it gained wildly popular use with many Filmotype owners as the first true italic version of its first connecting script face Filmotype Harmony by Ray Baker.

Filmotype Kingston was developed from the original font filmstrips and includes a full international character compliment, automatic fractionals, ordinals, and a large set of automatic alternate contextual characters and ligatures to allow flawless typesetting in dynamic OpenType format.