Marcellus SC

Try Marcellus SC

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Marcellus SC Regular

About Marcellus SC

Marcellus SC is a serif typeface in which the lowercase positions hold small capitals. Typing mixed-case text gives full-height capitals followed by shorter ones of the same design, the small-caps setting used for titles and names. The letters follow Roman inscriptional proportions: O and Q are nearly circular, E and S are narrow, and the strokes widen gently towards their ends into flared serifs instead of ending in slabs. Contrast is moderate, the Q has a long sweeping tail, and the J drops below the baseline. The official description presents Marcellus and Marcellus SC as a set, with the SC family leaning towards titling and the regular Marcellus serving a broader range of uses. There is one Regular style, with no bold or italic. The 370 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Astigmatic publishes it under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Marcellus SC works

Book, film and exhibition titles

Capitals with small capitals give a title an inscriptional look and a built-in hierarchy.

Names on certificates and invitations

A name typed in mixed case sets with a tall initial and small caps after it, with no extra formatting.

Subheads above Marcellus text

The companion Marcellus family supplies the lowercase for paragraphs under small-caps headings.

Letterspaced wordmarks

Round O shapes and flared strokes hold together when a word is tracked out on one line.

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 SC

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

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

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

Things to know

No lowercase letters

Lowercase input is drawn as small capitals, so ordinary mixed-case text cannot be set in Marcellus SC.

One style

Marcellus SC has Regular 400 only. There is no bold or italic.

Latin scripts only

The character sets are Latin and Latin Extended.

FAQs

Collections with Marcellus SC

• 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

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All serif fonts