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Macondo is a display face for headings; Fredoka is a sans serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Macondo
A calligraphic display face by John Vargas Beltrán, drawn from tarot illustrations that honour a García Márquez novel.
Macondo is a calligraphic display typeface by John Vargas Beltrán, based on lettering from tarot card illustrations inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad. Macondo comes as one Regular style with 311 glyphs in the Latin character set, including swash capitals and alternates. Macondo is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 for titles and short texts.
- Designer
- John Vargas Beltrán
- Classification
- Display
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 1 1 weight
- Variable font
- No
- Glyphs
- 311
- Languages checked
- 14 see the list
- Last updated
- version 2.001
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Macondo
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Macondo; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- Regular 400Macondo Regular
About Macondo
Macondo is a display typeface that turns a personal style of calligraphy into a regular digital alphabet. Its strokes are soft and nearly even, with rounded, slightly swollen ends; in the specimen the A carries a crossbar that sweeps out to the left, the M is a rounded uncial-like form and the e is drawn as an open curve with a tongue. The official notes trace the shapes to illustrations for a set of tarot cards that drew on Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien Años de Soledad. Early versions date from 1997 and the font was substantially reworked in 2009. Swash capitals and other alternate letters are built in, and Macondo Swash Caps is published as a separate sister family. Macondo has one Regular style with 311 glyphs in the basic Latin subset and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Where Macondo works
- Fantasy and folklore book covers
- Uncial-like capitals and soft pen strokes suit titles for magical-realist fiction, fairy tales and myth collections.
- Card and board game graphics
- The letterforms come from tarot card artwork, which carries over naturally to card titles and rule-book headings.
- Artisan food labels
- Rounded stroke ends and the sweeping A give coffee, chocolate and spice labels a hand-lettered name.
- Festival and theatre posters
- Swash capitals and alternates let a title line be varied letter by letter.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 311 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
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright � 1997 - 2011, John Vargas Beltr�n (www.johnvargasbeltran.com|john.vargasbeltran@gmail.com), with Reserved Font Name Macondo.
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 Macondo
Andada Pro Serif
Macondo is a display face for headings; Andada Pro is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.
Inter Sans Serif
Macondo is a display face for headings; Inter is a sans serif family with 9 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 Macondo 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: "Macondo";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Macondo-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 400;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Macondo", sans-serif;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Macondo with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<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=Macondo&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- One style
- Macondo has only Regular 400, with no bold or italic.
- Sister family for swashes
- Macondo Swash Caps is a separate family; in Macondo itself the swash capitals are alternates.
- Basic Latin subset
- The font lists the Latin subset only, with 311 glyphs. Spanish, Portuguese and French letters are covered.
FAQs
Is Macondo free for commercial use?
Yes. Macondo 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.
Who designed Macondo?
Macondo was designed by John Vargas Beltrán, who is also named in the copyright notice.
How many weights does Macondo have?
Macondo has one weight, Regular 400.
Where does the name Macondo come from?
The official notes link Macondo to Gabriel García Márquez's Cien Años de Soledad: the letterforms grew out of tarot card illustrations inspired by that novel.
Which languages does Macondo support?
Macondo includes the letters needed for English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Only the basic Latin subset is provided.
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