Cormorant

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Weights and styles

• Light 300Cormorant Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Cormorant Regular Italic
• Medium 500Cormorant Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Cormorant SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Cormorant Bold Bold Italic

Cormorant is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Cormorant

Cormorant is a serif family that its designer, Christian Thalmann, describes as a display typeface. He drew, spaced, kerned and produced it himself at Catharsis Fonts; the official notes credit Claude Garamont's work as the inspiration while stating that the glyphs were mostly drawn from scratch, not adapted from an existing font. Funding from Google Fonts made the open release possible. In the specimen the thin strokes are hairlines, the serifs are small and sharp, the lowercase is short beneath long ascenders and the numerals are old-style. This roman and italic pair sits at the centre of a wider project of nine visual styles, among them Infant, Garamond, Upright Cursive, Small Caps and Unicase. It is a variable font, weight 300 to 700, with five named weights and italics, ten styles. The files contain 3,138 glyphs covering Latin, extended Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cormorant works

Display headlines

The designer drew Cormorant as a display family, and its hairlines and small sharp serifs are sized for large settings.

Fashion and culture editorial

Light and Regular give headings a thin, high-contrast line; Bold 700 remains moderate in weight for subheads.

Posters with large italics

The italic has its own variable file, so a slanted title can be tuned across the full 300 to 700 range.

Multilingual titles

Cyrillic and Vietnamese subsets extend the same drawing beyond Western European languages.

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
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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 Cormorant

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 Cormorant 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: "Cormorant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cormorant-Italic-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Cormorant-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cormorant 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=Cormorant:ital,wght@0,300..700;1,300..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Part of a larger project

The Cormorant project spans nine visual styles; this family holds the roman and italic.

Thin at text sizes

Hairline strokes and a short lowercase are drawn for display; small text loses the thin parts.

Weight range 300 to 700

There is nothing lighter than Light or heavier than Bold, and Greek is not covered.

FAQs

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