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Lobster

A bold slanted script that swaps in alternate letters and ligatures by context instead of forcing joins.

Script 1 style by Impallari Type OFL

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Lobster is a bold connected script from Impallari Type. Instead of bending every letter to join its neighbour, Lobster stores many versions of each letter and many ligatures, and picks one by context. Lobster has one style and 1,148 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Lobster font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Impallari Type
Classification
Script
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
1,148
Languages checked
28 see the list
Last updated
version 2.100
Used for
HeadlinesPostersLogosSocial media

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Lobster; the download contains the complete files.

Lobster font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Lobster specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Lobster Regular

About Lobster

Lobster is a script typeface with heavy, slanted, joined letters, published by Impallari Type. Its official notes explain the idea behind it: a script font usually compromises letter shapes so that every pair connects, whereas Lobster draws several versions of each letter and a large number of letter pairs, and OpenType substitution chooses the fitting one inside each word, the way a lettering artist would. That is why a one-style font holds 1,148 glyphs. In the specimen the strokes are thick with moderate contrast, the capital L has a looped foot, the f and z descend, and the figures lean with the letters. The character set covers Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Lobster has no bold or italic. It is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with Lobster as a reserved font name.

Where Lobster works

Restaurant and food branding
Thick joined strokes and looped capitals read like brush-painted sign lettering on menus and shopfronts.
Poster and banner headlines
The heavy colour of the single style holds a short headline against photographs and flat colour alike.
Social media graphics
Contextual ligatures tidy the joins automatically, so a phrase typed into a design tool connects without manual fixes.
Russian-language titles
Cyrillic letters are part of the 1,148 glyphs, so a script headline can be set in Russian, Ukrainian or Bulgarian.
T-shirt and sticker lettering
One or two words at large size show off the alternates and the swash-like capitals.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 1,148 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
  • Russian
  • Ukrainian
  • Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2010 The Lobster Project Authors (https://github.com/impallari/The-Lobster-Font), with Reserved Font Name "Lobster".

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Lobster

Aref Ruqaa Serif

Lobster is a script face for headings; Aref Ruqaa is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Google Sans Flex Sans Serif

Lobster is a script face for headings; Google Sans Flex is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Bodoni Moda Serif

Lobster is a script face for headings; Bodoni Moda is a serif family with 6 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Lobster 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Lobster";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Lobster-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Lobster", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Lobster with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Ligatures must be on
The alternate letters and letter pairs are applied through OpenType ligature features. With ligatures disabled, the joins are rougher.
One style
Lobster is a single Regular file, already heavy and slanted. Lobster Two is the related family with more styles.
Reserved name
The license reserves the name Lobster for the original; modified versions need another name.

FAQs

Is Lobster free for commercial use?

Yes. Lobster is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license and may not use the reserved name "Lobster" without permission.

Who designed Lobster?

Lobster is credited to Impallari Type; the license notice names The Lobster Project Authors.

Why does Lobster have so many glyphs?

Lobster holds 1,148 glyphs because it includes several versions of each letter and many ligatures, which are swapped in automatically according to the surrounding letters.

Does Lobster have a bold or italic?

No. Lobster has one style, which is already bold and slanted. Lobster Two offers Regular and Bold in upright and italic.

Which languages does Lobster support?

Lobster includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian.

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