Maiden Orange

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Maiden Orange Regular

About Maiden Orange

Maiden Orange is a slab serif display typeface with narrow letters and a hand-drawn irregularity. Its official notes give the source as custom lettering in advertisements of the 1950s and call the result light and festive. In the specimen the slabs are thick and blunt, stems widen slightly toward one end and do not stand perfectly upright, and the serifs sit at small angles, so a line has a gentle wobble while staying legible. The lowercase is tall, the g has a closed lower bowl, and the figures are as narrow as the letters. The family consists of one Regular style, with no italic and no variable axis. Its 369 glyphs cover Latin and most of Latin Extended. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, trading as Astigmatic, and the font is published under the Apache License 2.0.

Where Maiden Orange works

Retro advertising headlines

The design follows hand-lettered 1950s advertisements, so it sets diner, soda-shop and vintage-sale titles in period.

Children's story titles

The official notes mention children's stories; the leaning stems and blunt slabs keep a title friendly.

Packaging and labels

Narrow slab letters fit a product name across a small label while the wobble adds a hand-made note.

Posters and fairground signs

A tall, condensed lowercase stacks into compact lines for event posters and stall signs.

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
• 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 Maiden Orange

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 Maiden Orange 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: "Maiden Orange";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/MaidenOrange-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Maiden Orange", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Maiden Orange has a single Regular cut, with no bold or italic.

Apache license

Maiden Orange is under the Apache License 2.0, not the OFL: redistributed copies keep the license text and notices.

Romanian is incomplete

Most Latin Extended letters are present, including Turkish and Polish, but the Romanian ș and ț are missing.

FAQs

Collections with Maiden Orange

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

Similar fonts

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