IM Fell DW Pica

Try IM Fell DW Pica

Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell DW Pica Regular Italic

About IM Fell DW Pica

IM Fell DW Pica is a serif typeface that reproduces one of the Fell Types in digital form. The official notes trace the source: John Fell, who was Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, spent years equipping a learned press at Oxford with types bought in France, Holland and Germany and cut locally by his type-founder Peter De Walpergen, and in 1686 bequeathed the whole collection to the University. Igino Marini's digitisation does not smooth that history away. In the specimen every outline is slightly ragged, as if inked and pressed into paper; stems wobble, serifs are blunt, and the numerals are old-style figures that rise and dip around the x-height. The Q carries a long sweeping tail. The family holds a Regular and an Italic, with 384 glyphs for Latin text, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where IM Fell DW Pica works

Period book and pamphlet design

The outlines keep the worn look of seventeenth-century printing, which suits facsimile-style title pages and chapter openings.

Historical and literary headings

Blunt serifs and a long-tailed Q give a heading for a history essay or classic text an antique voice.

Game and fantasy documents

Uneven stems and old-style figures make in-world letters, maps and handouts look printed long ago.

Quotations with italic emphasis

A true Italic sits beside the Regular, so titles and emphasised words can be set within the same family.

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

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

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

Things to know

Roughness is built in

The ragged edges are part of the glyph outlines and become obvious at large sizes.

Old-style figures

Numerals vary in height and several descend below the baseline, so they do not line up like modern tabular figures.

No bold

The family has one weight, Regular 400, in upright and italic.

FAQs

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