Corinthia

Try Corinthia

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Corinthia Regular
• Bold 700Corinthia Bold

About Corinthia

Corinthia is a script typeface whose lowercase letters link into one slanted, even line. In the specimen the stroke is fine and changes little in thickness, the lowercase is small against tall looped ascenders and descenders, and the capitals open with long horizontal entry strokes that reach to the left of the letter. Numerals follow the same slant, with an open, oval zero. Unusually for a script of this kind, the family includes a Bold next to the Regular, so two styles are available; it is not a variable font. Its 761 glyphs cover the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese subsets. The official notes point to packaging, romance novels, invitations and greeting products as intended uses. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and Corinthia is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Corinthia works

Invitations and stationery

Fine joined strokes and long entry strokes on the capitals set names and headings on invitation suites.

Cosmetics and gift packaging

Bold keeps a product name legible on a small label where the hairline Regular would thin out.

Romance and memoir covers

Covers of this kind are named in the official notes; a title or author name in Corinthia carries a handwritten signature feel.

Greeting cards

A short sentiment in the Regular reads as careful penmanship on the front of a card.

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 Corinthia

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 Corinthia 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: "Corinthia";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Corinthia-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Corinthia";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Corinthia-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Corinthia 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=Corinthia:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two styles, not three

The official description mentions a third weight, but the package here holds Regular 400 and Bold 700 only.

Capitals need lowercase

The specimen's all-capitals line collides and tangles; the capitals are drawn to begin a word.

Small lowercase

Lowercase letters are short next to the ascenders, so the script has to be set large to be read.

FAQs

Collections with Corinthia

• 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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