Meddon

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Meddon Regular

About Meddon

Meddon is a script face that reproduces the hand of a clerk: its source, according to the designer, was the handwritten text of a legal document from the eighteenth century. The lowercase leans steeply to the right with thick downstrokes and thin connecting upstrokes, and several letters, f, g, j and y among them, end in open loops below the line. Capitals are larger and lighter, drawn with long hairline entry strokes that sweep over the letters beside them. Figures and punctuation share the slant. Meddon has a single Regular style of 437 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended character sets, and it is not a variable font. Vernon Adams is credited as designer and holds the copyright; the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Meddon as a reserved font name.

Where Meddon works

Invitations and place cards

A name with one flourished capital followed by the slanted lowercase looks written with a quill.

Certificates and diplomas

The model was a legal hand, which suits recipient names and formal lines on documents.

Historical and period titles

An eighteenth-century source makes Meddon a fit for book covers, museum labels and film titles set in that era.

Signature-style wordmarks

A short word in Meddon reads as a penned signature on packaging or a letterhead.

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

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 Meddon

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

body {
  font-family: "Meddon", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Capitals overlap in a row

The specimen’s all-capital line is a tangle of hairlines: each capital is meant to be followed by lowercase letters.

A wide script

Letters are strongly slanted and spaced out, so a line holds fewer characters than upright text of the same size.

Single style

Regular is the only weight. The designer’s note mentions a further version with alternates and swashes as being in development; it is not part of this package.

FAQs

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