Marmelad

Try Marmelad

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Marmelad Regular

About Marmelad

Marmelad is a sans serif named after marmalade sweets, and its shapes are meant to feel as soft and pliable as the name suggests. The defining detail is at the foot of the letters: every vertical stroke is rounded where it meets the baseline, so stems end in a soft curve where a flat cut would be expected. The specimen also shows clear thick-thin contrast for a sans, a tall lowercase, and numerals with pronounced modulation. Manvel Shmavonyan designed it at Cyreal chiefly for headlines at medium and large sizes; the official notes add that regular proportions keep it balanced in longer text and that the soft features work on screens. The family is one Regular style with 806 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese and Cyrillic, including extended Cyrillic. Marmelad is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Marmelad works

Headlines in Latin and Cyrillic

It was drawn for medium to large headlines, and the Cyrillic set lets Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian titles match Latin ones.

Food and confectionery branding

Stems that round off at the baseline give a soft, edible quality in line with the sweets the face is named after.

Blog and magazine subheads

Medium contrast separates a subhead from plain sans body text without resorting to a serif.

Short introductions and captions

A tall lowercase and regular proportions keep a few lines of text even on screen.

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
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Marmelad

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

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

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

Things to know

Single style

Marmelad has Regular 400 only, without bold or italic, which limits it for full text hierarchies.

Rounded feet, flat tops

The rounding applies toward the baseline; tops of stems remain flat in the specimen.

2022 update

The official notes record that kerning was improved and Latin language coverage expanded in 2022.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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