IM Fell Double Pica SC

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell Double Pica SC Regular

About IM Fell Double Pica SC

IM Fell Double Pica SC is a serif typeface in which the lowercase positions hold small capitals. It belongs to Igino Marini's digitisation of the Fell Types, the collection of punches and matrices assembled by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, for the university's press and bequeathed to Oxford on his death in 1686. The official notes record that the larger sizes, including the Double Pica roman, were cut by Fell's type-founder Peter De Walpergen. The specimen shows what the digital version preserves: outlines that wobble as inked metal type does on paper, strong contrast between thick and thin, a Q and an R with long tails, and old-style numerals that rise and descend. IM Fell Double Pica SC has one Regular style, is not a variable font, and holds 357 glyphs in the Latin subset. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where IM Fell Double Pica SC works

Period title pages

Small capitals with a printed, slightly battered edge suit titles for history books, plays and facsimile projects.

Chapter headings and running heads

Text typed in mixed case appears as capitals and small capitals, the classic treatment for headings in old books.

Labels for historical exhibits

The 17th-century source gives captions a tone that matches documents of that era.

Certificates and bookplates

A name set in capitals and small capitals carries a formal, antique character.

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 SC

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

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves IM Fell Double Pica SC 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+SC&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Small caps instead of lowercase

Lowercase keys produce small capitals. For true lowercase, use the companion IM Fell Double Pica.

Rough outlines are intentional

The irregular edges reproduce the look of the original printed type and remain visible at large sizes.

Old-style numerals

Figures vary in height and several drop below the baseline.

FAQs

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