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Alex Brush

A flowing brush script with looping capitals and short ascenders and descenders, in a single weight.

Script 1 style by Robert Leuschke OFL

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Alex Brush is a connected brush script credited to Robert Leuschke, with slanted joined lowercase, short ascenders and descenders, and large looped capitals. Alex Brush has one style, Regular 400, with 605 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Alex Brush is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits invitations, signatures and short headings.

Alex Brush font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Robert Leuschke
Classification
Script
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
605
Languages checked
25 see the list
Last updated
version 1.111; ttfautohint (v1.8.4.7-5d5b)
Used for
LogosWeddingsInvitationsElegant

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Alex Brush

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Alex Brush; the download contains the complete files.

Alex Brush font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Alex Brush specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Alex Brush Regular

About Alex Brush

Alex Brush is a script typeface that imitates writing with a pointed brush: strokes swell on the way down and thin to a hairline on the way up, and the lowercase letters join along a steep rightward slant. The capitals begin with wide entry loops; the A in the specimen starts from a long stroke far to the left of the letter. Ascenders and descenders are short in relation to the lowercase body, which the official description gives as the reason for its legibility. The numerals share the slant, and several carry small flourishes. Alex Brush has one style, Regular 400, and no bold. Its 605 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets, including letters for Turkish, Polish and Czech. Robert Leuschke is credited as the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Alex Brush works

Invitation names and headings
Looped capitals followed by joined lowercase suit the names of hosts or a couple at the top of a card.
Signature-style wordmarks
The brush stroke contrast makes a single name look signed, useful for personal brands and studios.
Greeting cards
Short ascenders and descenders let two or three lines of script sit close together without the loops colliding.
Labels for handmade products
A product name in Alex Brush gives jars, tags and boxes a hand-lettered line above plain details.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 605 glyphs.

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
  • Italian
  • Dutch
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic
  • Catalan
  • Turkish
  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Slovak
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian
  • Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2011 The Alex Brush Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/alex-brush)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Alex Brush

Cardo Serif

Alex Brush is a script face for headings; Cardo is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Antonio Sans Serif

Alex Brush is a script face for headings; Antonio is a sans serif family with 7 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cinzel Serif

Alex Brush is a script face for headings; Cinzel is a serif family with 6 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Alex Brush on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Alex Brush";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AlexBrush-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Alex Brush", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Alex Brush with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Capitals are for starting words
In the specimen a row of capitals tangles together; each capital is drawn to lead into lowercase, so all-caps setting does not work.
One weight
Alex Brush is Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.
Latin and Vietnamese only
There is no Cyrillic or Greek in the 605 glyphs.

FAQs

Is Alex Brush free for commercial use?

Yes. Alex Brush is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

Who designed Alex Brush?

Alex Brush is credited to Robert Leuschke; the font's name table gives the name as Robert E. Leuschke. The copyright notice names The Alex Brush Project Authors.

Is Alex Brush suitable for wedding invitations?

Yes. Alex Brush is a flowing brush script, and its license covers printed work, including paid print jobs. Use Alex Brush for names and headings and a plain text face for dates and addresses.

Does Alex Brush have a bold version?

No. Alex Brush has one weight, Regular 400.

Which languages does Alex Brush support?

Alex Brush includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, Spanish, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese. It has no Cyrillic or Greek.

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