Lily Script One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Lily Script One Regular

About Lily Script One

Lily Script One is a display script whose lowercase letters link along the baseline into one thick, slanted line. Strokes are heavy with little difference between thick and thin, and they end in rounded tips, which gives the face a soft outline. In the specimen the capitals carry small loops, the F and T have curled crossbars, and the 7 is drawn with a bar through its stem; a row of capitals alone runs together, so they are meant to lead into lowercase. The official notes describe it as a sturdy script for headlines. There is one Regular style and no variable axis. The 245 glyphs sit in the basic Latin subset, which is enough for Western European languages such as French, German, Spanish and Swedish. Julia Petretta is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with the Reserved Font Name Lily.

Where Lily Script One works

Shop names and wordmarks

Joined lowercase behind a looped capital turns a single word into a compact, sign-painted style mark.

Packaging fronts

The thick, soft strokes stay solid on jars, boxes and bags where a thin script would break up in print.

Menu and poster headings

A short heading in the slanted script contrasts with plain text for the items listed below it.

Cards and social graphics

Two or three words set large read as bold brush lettering on greeting cards and image posts.

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 Lily Script One

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Lily Script One has a single Regular cut. Although the strokes look bold, the file is weight 400 and there is no lighter or italic version.

Capitals need lowercase after them

The all-capitals line in the specimen crowds and overlaps. Use capitals as initials only.

Basic Latin subset only

Latin Extended is not included: letters such as the Turkish ğ and ş or the Czech č are absent from the character set.

FAQs

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