Jolly Lodger

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Jolly Lodger Regular

About Jolly Lodger

Jolly Lodger is a narrow display face whose letters refuse to stand straight. In the specimen each character leans a little to one side or the other, stems are wedge-shaped, thicker at one end than the other, corners are angular, and the counters are small slits, so a word looks cut from paper with scissors. Capitals and lowercase are both heavy and tightly spaced. The official description is written as an advertisement for an imaginary motel off the interstate, complete with air conditioning and cable television, and places the typeface in the mid-century. The family is one Regular file with 232 glyphs for Western European Latin and is not a variable font. Google Fonts credits Font Diner, the official description names Stuart Sandler of Font Diner as the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Jolly Lodger works

Retro event posters

Tilted, wedge-shaped letters set a mid-century mood before any illustration is added.

Party flyers and invitations

The uneven stance gives a date and a venue a playful tone.

Diner, motel and travel themes

The typeface was presented with a roadside motel story, which fits menus and souvenir graphics.

Tall narrow banners

Condensed letters fit a long headline into a slim format.

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
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Jolly Lodger

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

body {
  font-family: "Jolly Lodger", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Jolly Lodger has Regular 400 only, with no italic or second weight.

Small counters

The openings inside the letters are narrow slits in the specimen, so the face needs display sizes.

Western European Latin only

Polish ą and ń, Czech č and Turkish ğ and ş are not in the font.

FAQs

Collections with Jolly Lodger

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

Similar fonts

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