Dancing Script

Try Dancing Script

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Dancing Script Regular
• Medium 500Dancing Script Medium
• SemiBold 600Dancing Script SemiBold
• Bold 700Dancing Script Bold

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

About Dancing Script

Dancing Script is a casual script in which the joined lowercase does not sit on a rigid line: letters rise, dip and change size a little from one to the next. The capitals are large and several descend under the baseline, as the J, Y and Z do in the specimen, and thin connecting hairlines contrast with fuller downstrokes. The official notes say the design refers to script typefaces of the 1950s and recommend it for a friendly, informal, spontaneous tone. Pablo Impallari is the designer named in the font, and Google Fonts credits Impallari Type. A bold was added in May 2011, and in November 2019 the family became a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700, named Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold. The file has 612 glyphs with Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese subsets and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Dancing Script works

Party and shower invitations

The uneven baseline gives a headline the look of quick, cheerful handwriting.

Greeting cards

Large capitals open a short greeting, and Bold 700 keeps it visible over a photograph.

Signature-style wordmarks

Joined lowercase behind an oversized capital reads like a signed name.

Quotes for social posts

Four weights let the same phrase be set fine on a light background or heavy on a busy one.

Greetings in Vietnamese

The Vietnamese subset supplies the accented letters in the same hand.

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 Dancing Script

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 Dancing Script 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: "Dancing Script";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DancingScript-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Dancing Script", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Capitals reach below the baseline

Lines need extra spacing so that descending capitals do not touch the line beneath.

No italic, nothing lighter than 400

The only axis is weight, from Regular 400 to Bold 700.

Reserved font name

The copyright notice reserves the name Dancing Script, so a modified version needs another name.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Subsets are Latin, extended Latin and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Dancing Script

• Fonts for restaurant and café menus

  Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

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