Delius Swash Caps

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Delius Swash Caps Regular

About Delius Swash Caps

Delius Swash Caps is a handwriting typeface that belongs to a superfamily made for comic book lettering. Its stroke follows a round marker: the line thickens slightly at both ends, where the pen would touch down and lift off, and the letter construction follows the movement of the writing hand. The lowercase in the specimen is upright, open and simple. The capitals are the special part of this member of the family, with a loop through the D, curls on C, S and G, and sweeping tails on K, R and Z. They are intended for particular uses such as titles and logos. Two companion families, Delius and Delius Unicase, share the same stroke. Delius Swash Caps has one Regular style, is not a variable font, and holds 270 glyphs in the Latin subset. Natalia Raices designed it, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Delius Swash Caps works

Comic and picture book titles

Swashed capitals open a title while the plain lowercase keeps the rest of the line readable.

Logos for small shops

A looped initial followed by simple marker letters gives a name a hand-drawn signature.

Chapter openers and drop words

The decorated capitals mark the start of a section set otherwise in Delius.

Party invitations for children

Round marker strokes and curled initials suit a name and a date set large.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Delius Swash Caps

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 Delius Swash Caps 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: "Delius Swash Caps";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/DeliusSwashCaps-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Delius Swash Caps", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Delius Swash Caps 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=Delius+Swash+Caps&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Avoid all-caps settings

Every capital carries a swash. Set in a row they crowd each other, so use them as initials.

One style

Delius Swash Caps is Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Latin subset only

The 270 glyphs sit in the latin subset. Latin-ext, Cyrillic and Greek are not included.

FAQs

Collections with Delius Swash Caps

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

Similar fonts

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