IM Fell English SC

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell English SC Regular

About IM Fell English SC

IM Fell English SC is a serif typeface that sets small capitals in place of lowercase letters. Its outlines are intentionally irregular: in the specimen the edges wobble, serifs differ from letter to letter, and strokes thicken unevenly, reproducing the impression of worn metal type on paper instead of a cleaned-up drawing. Figures are old-style, and the capital Q and R end in long tails. The official text is a history of the Fell Types: John Fell, Dean of Christ Church and Bishop of Oxford, gathered types from France, Holland and Germany for a learned press from 1668 onwards, employed Peter de Walpergen as his type-founder, and on his death in 1686 left the collection to the University of Oxford. Igino Marini is the designer of this digital font. One Regular style is supplied, with 357 glyphs that include the letters for Polish, Czech, Turkish and Romanian.

Where IM Fell English SC works

Titles in historical books

Small caps with the texture of early printing suit title pages and chapter heads for history and literature.

Theatre programmes and period posters

Uneven outlines and long-tailed Q and R evoke seventeenth-century playbills and broadsides.

Labels with an antique look

Spirits, tea and apothecary-style packaging can borrow the worn letterpress impression.

Maps and props for games

Place names and document props gain an aged look without any image processing.

Headings above Fell text

Small-cap headings match body copy set in the roman of the same Fell design.

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

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

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

Things to know

No lowercase

Lowercase keys give small capitals; the full capitals are taller.

Roughness is deliberate

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

One style, old-style figures

There is only Regular 400, and the numerals have ascenders and descenders.

FAQs

Collections with IM Fell English SC

• Fonts with small capitals

  Families issued as small-caps cuts, where the lowercase keys give capitals at x-height: for acronyms, headings, credits and refined body text.

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