Cormorant SC

Try Cormorant SC

Weights and styles

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

About Cormorant SC

Cormorant SC is a serif typeface in which the lowercase positions hold small capitals, so mixed-case text sets as large and small capitals. It is one of the visual styles of Cormorant, a display family that Christian Thalmann drew, spaced, kerned and produced himself; the official notes say he took Claude Garamont's work as inspiration but drew most glyphs from scratch instead of following a specific font. The specimen shows fine hairlines, sharp bracketed serifs, a Q with a long sweeping tail and old-style numerals. Five weights are available, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold, as five static styles; there is no italic in this cut and it is not a variable font. Each font holds 2,259 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cormorant SC works

Book covers and title pages

Large and small capitals with thin hairlines give an author's name or a title a classical setting at display sizes.

Running heads and section labels

Small capitals mark a heading or a label without the bulk of full capitals.

Invitations and stationery

Names and dates in Light or Regular small caps read as formal while staying upright and unjoined.

Mastheads and wordmarks

Five weights allow the same small-caps wordmark to be tuned from delicate to firm.

Headings in Cyrillic

The Cyrillic character set lets small-caps headings be set in Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian as well.

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 SC

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 SC 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 SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantSC-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantSC-Light.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 300;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantSC-Medium.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 500;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Cormorant SC";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CormorantSC-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
/* …and 1 more files in the package, declared the same way */

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Cormorant SC 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+SC:wght@300;400;500;600;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No lowercase

Typing lowercase letters produces small capitals. For true lowercase, another member of the Cormorant project is needed.

No italic

Cormorant SC has upright styles only, five in all.

Drawn for display sizes

The official notes call Cormorant a display type family; the hairlines seen in the specimen are thin and need size to hold.

FAQs

Collections with Cormorant SC

• Elegant serif fonts for wedding invitations

  Light, high-contrast and classical serif typefaces for invitation text, names in capitals and formal stationery.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts