Cormorant Infant

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Weights and styles

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

Cormorant Infant 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 Infant

Cormorant Infant is a display serif with fine hairlines, sharp serifs and a small lowercase set under long ascenders. It belongs to the Cormorant project, which Christian Thalmann of Catharsis Fonts drew, spaced and produced on his own; the Infant cut swaps the usual two-storey a for a single-storey form, as the specimen shows. The official notes describe Cormorant as inspired by the legacy of Claude Garamont, with most glyphs drawn from scratch and no particular font taken as a starting point. The download holds two variable files, roman and italic, each with a weight axis from 300 to 700 and five named weights: Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. Together they make ten styles. The fonts contain 2,622 glyphs and cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese character sets under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cormorant Infant works

Titles that call for a single-storey a

The Infant letterforms give headings and covers the simpler a while keeping the hairlines and proportions of the Cormorant family.

Book and chapter openers

Fine hairlines and long ascenders are drawn for large sizes, where a chapter title or drop line has room to show them.

Pull quotes and standfirsts

The italic file carries the same 300 to 700 weight axis, so a quotation can be set in italic at the weight of the surrounding heading.

Menus, programmes and invitations

Light 300 is the default weight of the axis and gives short lines of names and dates a thin, even colour.

Titles in Cyrillic or Vietnamese

With 2,622 glyphs, the same cut sets headings in Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Vietnamese as well as 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 Infant

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

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

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

Things to know

The axis starts at Light

The weight axis runs from 300 to 700 and its default value is 300, so an unstyled variable instance appears as Light, not Regular.

Drawn for display sizes

The official description calls Cormorant a display type family. Its hairlines are very thin and its lowercase is small, which shows in the specimen.

One cut of a larger project

Cormorant also exists in roman, Garamond, upright cursive, small caps and unicase cuts. They are separate families and are not part of this download.

Variable files only

The package holds one variable roman and one variable italic file. Static files for each weight are available from the official source.

FAQs

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