Ballet

Try Ballet

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ballet Regular

Ballet is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Ballet

Ballet is a script typeface that reworks classic Spencerian penmanship. In the specimen the lowercase is small, steeply slanted and joined, with long ascenders and descenders, while each capital is wrapped in large oval flourishes drawn in hairlines that extend far beyond the letter itself. Thick strokes appear only on the downstrokes, so contrast is extreme. Ballet is a variable font with one axis, optical size, from 16 to 72: lower values are meant for smaller settings and higher values for large ones. It has a single Regular weight and no italic. The font holds 903 glyphs across the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. Maximiliano Sproviero designed it and Eduardo Tunni developed the fonts, according to the official notes; the copyright notice names The Ballet Project Authors. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ballet works

Wedding invitations

Flourished capitals set the couple's names large, where the hairline ovals have room to show.

Monograms

A single capital with its surrounding loops works as a complete ornament on stationery.

Certificates and diplomas

The Spencerian model gives a recipient's name the look of formal penmanship.

Perfume and cosmetics labels

Extreme contrast and fine hairlines suit a short brand name printed at high resolution.

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

Fonts that pair with Ballet

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 Ballet 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.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Ballet";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Ballet-Regular-VariableFont_opsz.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Ballet", cursive;
}

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

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ballet&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Optical size is the only axis

The variable axis runs from 16 to 72 and adjusts the drawing for the size in use. Weight cannot be changed.

Capitals overlap in a row

The specimen's all-capitals line is a tangle of flourishes. Capitals are meant to begin a word, not to be set together.

Hairlines need size and resolution

The thinnest strokes can vanish at small sizes or on coarse printing.

FAQs

Collections with Ballet

• Script fonts for wedding invitations

  Formal and semi-formal connected scripts for names, invitations and place cards, from copperplate hairlines to relaxed pen writing.

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