Imperial Script

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Imperial Script Regular

About Imperial Script

Imperial Script is a formal connected script with a steep rightward slant. In the specimen the lowercase is small and tightly joined by hairline strokes, while the downstrokes swell into dark shades, so a word alternates between very thin and very heavy lines. The capitals are far larger than the lowercase and open with looped entry strokes; set side by side they overlap, which shows they are drawn to begin words rather than to form all-capital lines. Numerals and the ampersand share the slant and the thick-thin pattern. The family consists of one Regular file with 628 glyphs and is not a variable font. Its character set covers Western and Central European Latin and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Imperial Script works

Wedding invitation suites

Looped capitals and shaded downstrokes carry the couple's names and the main line of an invitation.

Place cards and menus

A guest name or a course heading stays short enough for the hairline joins to remain clear.

Seasonal greeting cards

One or two words in Imperial Script give a card its formal headline, with details set in a plainer face.

Monograms

Each capital already carries its own loops, so two or three initials need little additional ornament.

Names with accents

Latin Extended and Vietnamese letters let names in Polish, Czech, Turkish or Vietnamese be set without substitute glyphs.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Imperial Script

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

body {
  font-family: "Imperial Script", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Imperial Script 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=Imperial+Script&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style only

Imperial Script has a single Regular style, with no bold and no upright companion.

Capitals collide in all-caps lines

In the specimen a row of capitals overlaps heavily. Use them as initials followed by lowercase.

Hairlines need size

The connecting strokes are the thinnest part of the design and fade first when the type is set small.

FAQs

Collections with Imperial Script

• Script fonts for wedding invitations

  Formal and semi-formal connected scripts for names, invitations and place cards, from copperplate hairlines to relaxed pen writing.

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