Borel

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Borel Regular

About Borel

Borel is a cursive handwriting typeface that follows the model taught in French primary schools. The lowercase letters are joined and upright, with looped ascenders and descenders, a tall x-height and a sturdy line of almost uniform thickness ending in rounded tips. The capitals in the specimen are plain upright forms without loops, close to a rounded sans, and the numerals are simple and open. The official notes explain the aim: to reconcile cursive strokes with ordinary typographic structure, keeping letters open and clearly different from one another. The name honours Suzanne Borel-Maisonny, a pioneer of speech therapy. Borel has one style, Regular, and 1,509 glyphs, though its language coverage is deliberately narrow. Rosalie Wagner designed it, and the name table lists ANRT as manufacturer.

Where Borel works

Handwriting worksheets

The joined lowercase matches the cursive that French schools teach, so printed models look like what pupils are asked to write.

First reading books

Open, clearly differentiated letters were developed with teachers and speech therapists for early readers.

Speech therapy material

The project involved speech therapists and is named after a pioneer of the field.

Classroom labels and displays

A sturdy low-contrast line with a tall x-height stays clear on name tags and wall charts.

School-themed titles

A word in looped school cursive signals childhood and learning on a cover or poster.

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
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, 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 Borel

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

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

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

Things to know

Limited language set by design

The official notes list English, French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Turkish and Vietnamese as supported; the Latin Extended set is incomplete.

Capitals are not cursive

The capitals are plain upright letters while the lowercase is joined.

One style

Borel has only Regular, with no bold or variable version.

FAQs

Collections with Borel

• Fonts for children and early readers

  Schoolbook sans-serifs, print handwriting and rounded display faces for worksheets, picture books and classroom materials.

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