IM Fell French Canon SC

Try IM Fell French Canon SC

Weights and styles

• Regular 400IM Fell French Canon SC Regular

About IM Fell French Canon SC

IM Fell French Canon SC is a serif typeface in capitals and small capitals, part of Igino Marini's revival of the Fell Types. Those types were gathered in the 17th century by John Fell, Bishop of Oxford, for the press he built up there, and were left to the University of Oxford on his death in 1686. French Canon was one of the large sizes cut for Fell by his type-founder Peter De Walpergen. The specimen shows what survives of that origin: strong contrast, slightly uneven contours like inked metal type, a Q with a long sweeping tail and old-style numerals. Lowercase input produces small capitals. The font has one Regular style, 357 glyphs, and is not a variable font. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where IM Fell French Canon SC works

Title pages and chapter heads

Capitals with small capitals give a title the look of a 17th-century book without mixed case.

Running heads and bylines

Small capitals set an author's name or a section label apart from body text in another face.

Historical and literary subjects

The irregular, press-printed outlines suit editions, exhibitions and essays about early modern material.

Labels and bottle typography

A short name in spaced small capitals reads as traditional letterpress.

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

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

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

Things to know

No lowercase

Lowercase keys give small capitals, so ordinary mixed-case text is not possible with this cut.

One style

IM Fell French Canon SC is a single Regular font, without bold or italic.

Deliberately rough outlines

The uneven edges visible at large sizes belong to the design and are not a rendering fault.

Reserved Font Name

The name table reserves the name IM FELL French Canon SC, so modified versions need a different name.

FAQs

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