Grand Hotel

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Grand Hotel Regular

About Grand Hotel

Grand Hotel is a script typeface whose letters stand upright and join along the baseline. Strokes are thick and nearly even, with rounded ends, so the face keeps its weight at small display sizes; the letters are narrow, and the capitals carry curled entry strokes and ball-shaped terminals, as in the G, H and Q of the specimen. The official notes trace the design to Cafe Metropole, a film from 1937 whose title screen inspired it, and associate its weight with holiday and bakery themes while adding that it works elsewhere too. Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles drew it for Astigmatic. Only a Regular style exists: there is no bold, light or italic, and the font is not variable. The 369 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian.

Where Grand Hotel works

Bakery and café signs

The official notes link the weight of the script to bakery themes, and its thick strokes carry on a shopfront or window.

Holiday cards and seasonal packaging

Curled capitals and joined lowercase suit greetings and gift labels.

Retro film and diner posters

The design goes back to a 1937 film title, which fits posters and menus styled after that era.

Product labels

Narrow joined letters fit a brand name across a jar, bottle or box.

Logos and wordmarks

One or two words in mixed case form a compact, connected mark.

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 Grand Hotel

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

body {
  font-family: "Grand Hotel", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Grand Hotel has Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Upright, not slanted

Unlike most connecting scripts the letters stand vertically, which keeps lines compact.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Grand Hotel; a modified version needs another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with Grand Hotel

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

• 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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