McLaren

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400McLaren Regular

About McLaren

McLaren is a display sans serif made to serve as a general-purpose comic lettering style. Its strokes have nearly constant thickness with flat, slightly angled ends, and the letters lean and shift a little from one to the next, so a line bounces gently without looking messy; in the specimen the A, M and y tilt while round letters stay calm. The lowercase is full-sized, with a two-storey a and a single-storey g. The official notes describe it as legible from short bursts of copy to longer passages and point to children's books and comics. McLaren has one Regular style and is not a variable font. It holds 375 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended character sets. The copyright belongs to Brian J. Bonislawsky, trading as Astigmatic, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where McLaren works

Comic balloons and captions

The face was created as go-to comic lettering, and it has a real lowercase for mixed-case dialogue.

Children's books

Simple, clean shapes with a slight bounce keep short pages of story text friendly and readable.

Classroom posters and worksheets

Sturdy even strokes hold up when printed large on a wall chart or small on a handout.

Playful app and game text

Buttons, hints and score labels gain an informal tone while staying clear.

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 McLaren

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

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

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

Things to know

Single style

McLaren has only Regular 400. There is no bold or italic for emphasis.

Has lowercase

Unlike many comic fonts it is not capitals-only; upper and lower case are both drawn.

Latin scripts only

The subsets are Latin and Latin Extended, 375 glyphs in total.

FAQs

Collections with McLaren

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

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