Marvel

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Marvel Regular Italic
• Bold 700Marvel Bold Bold Italic

About Marvel

Marvel is a sans serif family with narrow proportions and thin strokes of even thickness. In the specimen the round letters are drawn as tall rectangles with rounded corners, the a and u end in a small spur at the baseline, and the figure 1 is a plain vertical stroke that resembles a capital I. Bold is only a little heavier than Regular, so the two weights stay close in colour. Carolina Trebol designed the family; the official notes present it as a multipurpose face meant to look sharp and technical, for headlines as well as text on websites and in print, and say it grew out of typefaces she drew for her own graphic design projects. Four static files make up the family: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. With 194 glyphs, the character set stays within basic Latin.

Where Marvel works

Technology and product headlines

Squared curves and thin vertical strokes give titles the technical tone the designer was aiming for.

Navigation and narrow columns

The condensed letters fit more characters into a menu bar, a sidebar or a table heading than a sans of regular width.

Large poster lines

At big sizes the thin strokes read as fine lines, and the rectangular o, c and e become a visible motif.

Short text in Western European languages

The fonts include the letters for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and Estonian.

Captions with emphasis

Italic and Bold Italic files allow emphasis in captions and intro lines without leaving the family.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Finnish
• Estonian

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: Finnish å, Å.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Marvel

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 Marvel 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: "Marvel";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Marvel-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Marvel";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Marvel-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Marvel";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Marvel-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Marvel";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Marvel-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Marvel 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=Marvel:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Bold is a light bold

In the specimen the Bold weight is only slightly darker than Regular; it will not create strong contrast on its own.

No percent sign

The character set has no percent sign (U+0025), and the specimen leaves a gap where it would appear.

Small character set

Marvel has 194 glyphs in the basic Latin subset. Finnish is covered except for the letter å.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Marvel, so a modified version needs a different name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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