Cedarville Cursive

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Cedarville Cursive Regular

About Cedarville Cursive

Cedarville Cursive is a handwriting typeface that reproduces ordinary joined-up writing, not formal calligraphy. In the specimen the line is thin and of even thickness, as from a ballpoint or fine felt pen; lowercase letters link along the baseline with a gentle rightward slant, the loops of g, j, y and z drop well below the line, and the capitals are larger, school-style cursive forms. The official notes say the font follows the hand of a preschool teacher who studied at Cedarville University, and they set it apart from scripts with large flourishes as something closer to real daily writing. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 355 glyphs include accented letters for Western European languages and for Turkish, Polish and Hungarian, among others. Kimberly Geswein is the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cedarville Cursive works

Handwritten letters and notes

Joined lowercase in a thin pen line makes a paragraph on a card or a mock-up look like a personally written note.

Signature-style lines

A name set in the cursive capitals and linked lowercase reads like a signed sign-off under a message.

Thank-you cards and small invitations

The plain cursive, free of large flourishes, gives a friendly tone to informal cards.

Journal and scrapbook captions

A short caption beside a photo keeps the look of everyday writing.

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
• Hungarian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: 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 Cedarville Cursive

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

body {
  font-family: "Cedarville Cursive", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

The line is thin

The stroke has the weight of a fine pen, so the font needs a generous size and good contrast with the background.

Capitals are made to begin a word

The capital letters are looped cursive forms drawn to lead into lowercase; a word set entirely in capitals is hard to read.

One style

Cedarville Cursive has Regular only. There is no bold and no separate italic.

FAQs

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