Marcellus

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Marcellus Regular

About Marcellus

Marcellus is a flared serif typeface whose forms come from classic Roman inscriptions. Instead of separate serifs, the strokes widen gradually toward their ends, which the specimen shows clearly in the A, M and V. The capitals follow inscriptional proportions, with a wide round O and Q and narrow E, F and S, and the figures are old-style, changing height and dipping below the baseline. The family is one Regular style with 370 glyphs. Its official notes list four covered ranges: Latin-1, Latin-2, Turkish and the Windows Baltic set. A sister family, Marcellus SC, provides small caps and leans further toward a titling style, while this Regular is described as the more broadly usable of the two. Astigmatic is credited, and the copyright line names Brian J. Bonislawsky. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Marcellus works

Titles and mastheads

Inscriptional capitals with flared stroke ends give a title a carved, classical outline.

Wine, cosmetics and hotel branding

Wide round capitals and thin joins set a name in a restrained, formal tone on labels and stationery.

Invitations and certificates

Old-style figures blend dates into lines of mixed-case text instead of standing at capital height.

Short introductions

The lowercase is open and even enough for a few lines of text beneath a heading.

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 Marcellus

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

body {
  font-family: "Marcellus", serif;
}

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

Things to know

Single style

There is no bold or italic. Marcellus SC, the small-caps sister, is a separate family.

Old-style figures

The numerals vary in height and several descend below the baseline, as the specimen shows. They are not built for tables.

Latin only

Coverage is Latin and Latin Extended; Romanian letters are not complete, and there is no Cyrillic or Greek.

FAQs

Collections with Marcellus

• Roman capital and inscriptional fonts for titles

  Capitals drawn after Roman inscriptions and flared lettering, for film-style titles, monograms, certificates and luxury branding.

Similar fonts

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