IM Fell French Canon

Try IM Fell French Canon

Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell French Canon Regular Italic

About IM Fell French Canon

IM Fell French Canon is a serif typeface based on one of the largest of the Fell types, the seventeenth-century collection kept by the Oxford university press. The official notes quote Stanley Morison on these big sizes: he found them close to Dutch type of the later 1600s but with a much stronger opposition of thick and thin strokes. The specimen agrees. Heavy stems meet fine hairlines, serifs are sharp and bracketed, the capital U is built with a stem and foot like an enlarged lowercase u, and the Q throws a long tail beneath the following letter. Figures are old-style and the braces are drawn as wavy lines. The outlines are steadier than in the smaller Fell revivals, though still slightly irregular. Regular and Italic make up the family, with 392 glyphs. Igino Marini is credited as designer, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where IM Fell French Canon works

Book and journal titles

A type originally cut for a large body holds its thick and thin strokes at title sizes on covers and mastheads.

Title pages in a period style

Regular for the title and Italic for the subtitle echo the layout of early printed books.

Display quotations

A sentence set large in the Italic makes an epigraph or opening quote for an essay.

Wine, spirits and stationery labels

Sharp serifs, old-style figures and the long-tailed Q give names and years a traditional printed look.

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 French Canon

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

body {
  font-family: "IM Fell French Canon", serif;
}

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

Things to know

Regular and Italic only

Both are weight 400. The family has no bold, so hierarchy comes from size and from switching to italic.

Drawn from a large size of type

The hairlines are fine; at small text sizes on screen they thin out and the contrast becomes harsh.

Old-style figures

Numerals rise and descend like lowercase letters, as the specimen shows, and are not aligned for tables.

FAQs

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