La Belle Aurore

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400La Belle Aurore Regular

About La Belle Aurore

La Belle Aurore is a handwriting typeface drawn by Kimberly Geswein. The official description calls it whimsical and romantic and points out that it is not a true script, though its curls and tendrils resemble one. In the specimen the line is thin and even, like a fine pen, and everything leans strongly to the right. Some lowercase letters touch their neighbours and others stand apart, widths vary from letter to letter, and g, j and y end in long looped descenders. Capitals such as A, D, G and J are written in cursive forms with entry loops, and the x-height is small against the tall ascenders. La Belle Aurore is one static Regular file with 354 glyphs in Latin and Latin Extended character sets, including the letters for French, German, Polish, Czech and Hungarian. There is no bold or italic.

Where La Belle Aurore works

Handwritten notes and quotes

The uneven widths and partial joins read as a real person's pen writing in a short quotation.

Greeting cards and invitations

Looped descenders and cursive capitals give names and greetings a personal touch.

Journals and scrapbook layouts

The thin pen line works as captions and margin notes beside photographs.

Social media graphics

A line of slanted handwriting over an image adds an informal signature-like element.

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
• Polish
• Czech
• Hungarian
• 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 La Belle Aurore

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 La Belle Aurore 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: "La Belle Aurore";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/LaBelleAurore-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "La Belle Aurore", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

La Belle Aurore has Regular 400 only, with no bold, italic or variable version.

Small lowercase

The x-height is low compared with the ascenders, so the face needs a larger size than a text font to read comfortably.

Handwriting, not a connected script

Letters join only in places; the official description itself says it is not a true script.

FAQs

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