Bellefair

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Bellefair Regular

About Bellefair

Bellefair is a serif typeface with a light build and a small lowercase. In the specimen the ascenders of b, d, f and l rise far above a low x-height, the capitals are narrow and fine-stroked, the serifs are thin and sharply cut, and the numerals are slim and stand at capital height. The result is a delicate texture that needs size before its thin strokes show clearly. Bellefair began as a Latin design by Nick Shinn; a Hebrew alphabet by Liron Lavi Turkenich was then drawn within the same project so that the two scripts agree in style, weight and overall colour. The project is led by Shinntype, a type foundry in Toronto, Canada. There is one Regular style, with no italic or bold, and 483 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Hebrew. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Bellefair works

Magazine and book titles

Thin serifs and tall ascenders come into their own at title sizes on covers, openers and section heads.

Hebrew and Latin headings

The Hebrew alphabet was drawn to match the Latin, so a bilingual title keeps one weight and colour across both scripts.

Menus and invitations

The narrow capitals and light strokes suit names, course headings and dates printed at generous sizes.

Wordmarks

A single word in Bellefair capitals gives a brand name a fine-stroked, narrow serif signature.

Pull quotes

A sentence or two set large shows the contrast between the small lowercase and its long ascenders.

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

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: hebrew, latin, latin-ext. 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 Bellefair

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 Bellefair 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: "Bellefair";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Bellefair-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Bellefair", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Bellefair 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=Bellefair&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Bellefair has only Regular 400. There is no italic and no bold, so emphasis has to come from size, colour or a second family.

Small x-height

The lowercase is low in relation to the capitals, so Bellefair looks smaller than most serifs at the same point size.

Two spellings of one designer

The official description writes Liron Lavi Turkenich; the font's own name table spells the surname Turkenic.

FAQs

Collections with Bellefair

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

  Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

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