Englebert

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Englebert Regular

About Englebert

Englebert is a display typeface with tall, narrow letters drawn in an informal hand. Its source is film lettering: the official description points to the title screen of a 1930s picture with Marlene Dietrich. In the specimen the strokes are almost even but widen slightly toward their ends, stems tilt a little from the vertical, and ascenders rise high above a modest x-height. The lowercase g ends in an open loop that swings back under the letter, t has a slanted crossbar, and the figures are as narrow as the capitals. The makers call it playful in a mild way. The family is one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 377 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended sets. The catalogue and the name table credit Astigmatic, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Englebert works

Film and theatre titles

Lettering taken from a 1930s title screen gives posters and programmes a period cinema accent.

Cafe menus and chalkboard-style signs

Narrow letters fit long dish names in a column while keeping an informal hand-drawn look.

Book covers

High ascenders and the looped g give a title a recognisable silhouette in a narrow space.

Headings in Central European languages

Latin Extended coverage includes Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish letters.

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

Fonts that pair with Englebert

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

body {
  font-family: "Englebert", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Englebert 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=Englebert&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style

Englebert has a single Regular style, with no bold or italic.

Narrow set

The letters are condensed, so a line holds more characters than a regular-width face of the same size.

Romanian is incomplete

The comma-accented ț used in Romanian is missing from the Latin Extended set.

FAQs

Collections with Englebert

• Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

  Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

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