Beth Ellen

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Beth Ellen Regular

About Beth Ellen

Beth Ellen is a handwriting typeface that reproduces one person's cursive. The official notes say Rob Jelinski, responsible for art direction and design, and Alyson Fraser Diaz, responsible for typography and functionality, built it in 2018 from the penmanship of Rob's mother, Beth Ellen Jelinski, who died of cancer in March 2017. Jelinski asked that people who use the font send a short note to someone they love. In the specimen the lowercase leans right and joins from letter to letter, the stroke edges stay slightly ragged like a felt pen on paper, and the capitals are looped school-style forms, including an F and T with a wavy top bar. There is one Regular style with 254 glyphs. Coverage is the basic Latin subset: English, German, Spanish, Italian and the Nordic languages are covered, and French lacks only the rare capital Ÿ.

Where Beth Ellen works

Personal notes and letters

The font was drawn from real note-writing penmanship, so a short message reads like something written by hand.

Greeting and thank-you cards

Joined lowercase and looped capitals carry a name or a one-line wish at a large size.

Memorial and family projects

Its origin as a tribute to a parent's handwriting fits scrapbooks, family recipe pages and remembrance cards.

Quotes on social graphics

The ragged pen edges stay visible at display sizes and give a quote a hand-written texture.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Beth Ellen

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

body {
  font-family: "Beth Ellen", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Beth Ellen has Regular 400 only. There is no bold or italic.

Basic Latin subset

Only the Latin subset is present, with 254 glyphs. French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ.

Capitals lead into lowercase

In the specimen a row of capitals runs together; the looped capitals are drawn to begin a word.

FAQs

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