Macondo Swash Caps

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Macondo Swash Caps Regular

About Macondo Swash Caps

Macondo Swash Caps is a calligraphic display face with rounded stroke ends and flourished capitals. In the specimen the A throws a long tail down to the left, the M opens with a looped entry stroke, the O holds a dot at its centre, and the lowercase stays comparatively plain, with an e whose bar tilts upward and a zero crossed by a slash. According to the official description, Macondo set out to turn an original, systematised style of calligraphy into a digital font; its forms derive from illustrations made for a tarot card game that was itself inspired by Gabriel García Márquez's novel Cien Años de Soledad. Early versions date from 1997 and the design was substantially improved in 2009. This sister family is one Regular file with 247 glyphs for Western European Latin, designed by John Vargas Beltrán and published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Macondo Swash Caps works

Book covers and chapter titles

Swash capitals on the first letter of each word give a literary or fantasy title its ornament.

Cards and tabletop games

The letterforms started as lettering for tarot card illustrations, and card titles return them to that setting.

Event posters

A few large words show the tail of the A and the dotted O clearly.

Initials and drop caps

A single swash capital at the start of a paragraph works as a decorative initial.

Shop names and logos

The pen-drawn curves give a short name a handmade character.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 Macondo Swash Caps

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 Swash Caps 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: "Macondo Swash Caps";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MacondoSwashCaps-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Macondo Swash Caps", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Use capitals as initials

In the specimen the swashes of adjacent capitals touch, so all-capital words are crowded.

One weight

Macondo Swash Caps has Regular 400 only, with no italic.

Western European Latin

French is covered except for the rare capital Ÿ; Turkish ğ and ş and Polish ą and ę are not in the font.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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