Megrim

Try Megrim

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Megrim Regular

About Megrim

Megrim is a display typeface drawn entirely in a thin line of constant thickness. There is no conventional lowercase: in the specimen the lowercase row stands at capital height and repeats most capitals, swapping in variant shapes for a few letters such as a rounded e, a looped g and a different M and N. The geometry is deliberately odd. The A is a closed triangle without a crossbar, and M and N sit on a base stroke that turns them into boxed shapes. The official notes call the font experimental and mention stylistic alternates. Megrim has a single style, listed as Regular 400, and is not a variable font. It holds 341 glyphs for the Latin and Latin Extended sets. Daniel Johnson holds the copyright, and the font is released under the SIL Open Font License.

Where Megrim works

Wordmarks

The triangular A and base-stroked M and N turn a short name into a set of geometric marks.

Album and gallery titles

Hairline strokes at large sizes give a spare, architectural heading for covers and exhibition graphics.

Mixing the two letter sets

Typing some letters in lowercase swaps in the variant e, g, m or n, so a title can be tuned shape by shape.

Large display lines

Thin lines set very big in print or on a dark screen keep their detail without filling the page with ink.

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 Megrim

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

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

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

Things to know

No true lowercase

Lowercase input produces capital-height letters, some with alternate shapes, so mixed-case text looks like all caps.

One thin weight

The only style is Regular 400, and its strokes are hairlines; small sizes become faint.

Unconventional forms

Letters such as A, M and N break standard construction, which makes Megrim a title face rather than a reading face.

FAQs

Collections with Megrim

• Thin and hairline fonts for light, airy headings

  Families with a Thin weight and single-style hairline display faces, for large headings, covers and minimal layouts.

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