IM Fell Double Pica

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell Double Pica Regular Italic

About IM Fell Double Pica

IM Fell Double Pica is a serif typeface that reproduces a historical printing type instead of smoothing it out. Its source is the Double Pica roman and italic from the Fell types, the collection that John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, gathered for the university press and left to it when he died in 1686. The official notes credit his type-founder, Peter de Walpergen, with cutting the larger sizes, this one among them. In the specimen the outlines waver the way inked metal type does on paper: stems change thickness, serifs are uneven, and the figures are old-style, rising and dipping around the lowercase. The capital Q trails a long tail beneath the next letter. The family has two styles, Regular and Italic, with 395 glyphs. Igino Marini is credited as designer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where IM Fell Double Pica works

Book titles and chapter openings

The uneven, inked outlines show at large sizes and give a title page the texture of early letterpress.

Historical and literary projects

Reprints of old texts, museum captions and theatre programmes can use a face taken from seventeenth-century Oxford type.

Quotations in italic

The matching Italic sets a pull quote or epigraph apart without leaving the family.

Labels with a period look

Old-style figures and the long-tailed Q suit dates, names and short lines on bottle labels or bookplates.

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

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 IM Fell Double Pica

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 IM Fell Double Pica 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: "IM Fell Double Pica";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IMFellDoublePica-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "IM Fell Double Pica";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/IMFellDoublePica-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "IM Fell Double Pica", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves IM Fell Double Pica 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=IM+Fell+Double+Pica:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

The roughness is deliberate

Wobbling stems and uneven serifs are part of the drawing; they are not rendering faults and do not disappear at larger sizes.

Regular and Italic, no bold

Both files are weight 400. There is no bold cut for emphasis.

Figures are old-style

The numerals in the specimen have ascenders and descenders, so they do not line up with capitals in tables.

FAQs

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