Margarine

Try Margarine

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Margarine Regular

About Margarine

Margarine is a display typeface that looks written with a broad marker. Strokes are thick and even, their edges waver slightly, and every end is rounded. The official notes describe how round forms are deliberately carried into lowercase characters that are otherwise straightened: bowls and arches stay soft while the stems stand upright. One detail stands out in the specimen: the capital I carries a dot, like an enlarged lowercase i. Capitals are only a little taller than the lowercase, which keeps lines compact. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 372 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended. Margarine is credited to Astigmatic, with Brian J. Bonislawsky named in the copyright notice, and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Margarine works

Children's products and books

Thick marker strokes with rounded ends give titles a hand-drawn, approachable look.

Snack and dairy packaging

A product name set large shows the wavering edge that makes the lettering look made by hand.

Comic titles and sound effects

Heavy, soft letters hold their shape inside panels and speech-bubble headings.

Informal signs and notices

Short lines read as if written on a board with a broad marker.

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 Margarine

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

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

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

Things to know

Capital I has a dot

In the specimen the capital I is drawn with a dot above the stem. Check words in capitals before using them in a logo.

One style

Margarine has a single Regular style, already heavy. There is no lighter cut or italic.

Romanian letters are incomplete

Latin Extended is included, but the comma-below letters of Romanian (U+0218 to U+021B) are not in the font.

Reserved name

The copyright notice reserves the font name Margarine, so modified versions need another name unless permission is granted.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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