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Courgette

A brushy italic script with low stroke contrast, made to stay readable at small sizes on the web.

Script 1 style by Karolina Lach OFL

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Courgette is a brushy italic script typeface designed by Karolina Lach for Sorkin Type, with medium-to-low stroke contrast so that it holds up at smaller sizes on screens. Courgette has one style, Regular, with 407 glyphs in Latin and extended Latin subsets. Courgette is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits headings, menus and short passages.

Courgette font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Karolina Lach
Classification
Script
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
407
Languages checked
23 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002
Used for
HeadlinesLogosCasual

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

Try Courgette

Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Courgette; the download contains the complete files.

Courgette font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Courgette specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Courgette Regular

About Courgette

Courgette is an italic script typeface with the look of a round brush. Its letters lean steeply forward and are heavy and soft-cornered; the lowercase is mostly unjoined, with short exit strokes that bring neighbouring letters close without a continuous connecting line. Capitals such as A, K and R begin with small hooks in place of large flourishes. By the official account, scripts of this kind are usually kept for large sizes, whereas Courgette was made for the web with contrast low enough to stay clear when small. Karolina Lach is the designer and the copyright belongs to Sorkin Type Co, which reserves the font name Courgette. There is one style, Regular 400, in a static file of 407 glyphs with Latin and extended Latin subsets. Courgette was added to Google Fonts in 2012 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Courgette works

Subheadings and pull quotes
Low stroke contrast keeps the letters solid at sizes where thinner scripts break up.
Menu and section titles
The heavy, slanted brush line gives a title warmth while each letter stays separate and legible.
Wordmarks
Hooked capitals without long flourishes fit a name into a compact space.
Buttons and badges
Unjoined lowercase stays readable in a short label set at interface sizes.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 407 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
  • Croatian
  • Slovenian
  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2012 by Sorkin Type Co (www.sorkintype.com), with Reserved Font Name "Courgette".

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Courgette

Cardo Serif

Courgette is a script face for headings; Cardo is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Archivo Narrow Sans Serif

Courgette is a script face for headings; Archivo Narrow is a sans serif family with 4 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Cinzel Serif

Courgette is a script face for headings; Cinzel is a serif family with 6 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Courgette 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Courgette";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Courgette-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Courgette with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One style
Courgette has Regular 400 only. The design is already slanted, and there is no upright or bold companion.
Reserved font name
The copyright notice reserves the name Courgette, so a modified version must be renamed.
No Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese
Subsets are Latin and extended Latin; Romanian letters are not complete.

FAQs

Is Courgette free for commercial use?

Yes. Courgette is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, modified versions stay under the same license, and they may not use the reserved name Courgette.

Who designed Courgette?

Courgette was designed by Karolina Lach. The copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co.

How many weights does Courgette have?

Courgette has one weight, Regular 400.

Can Courgette be used for body text?

Courgette was made with low contrast so it works at smaller sizes and, by the official description, even in text. A short passage is realistic; long reading still calls for a plainer family.

Which languages does Courgette support?

Courgette includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Czech.

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