Meie Script

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Meie Script Regular

About Meie Script

Meie Script is a script typeface that reconstructs the model handwriting taught in Estonia from 1910. The letters lean strongly to the right and join in an unbroken line, with hairline upstrokes and fuller downstrokes as produced by a pointed pen. The official description calls the style less flamboyant than Western European scripts of the same period and says it mixes German and Russian handwriting influences. That restraint shows in the specimen: capitals are small and simple next to the long, wide lowercase, and the numerals are compact. Parentheses and braces, by contrast, are drawn as large sweeping curves. The family is a single Regular style and is not variable. Its 222 glyphs belong to the basic Latin subset; French is covered except for the ligature œ.

Where Meie Script works

Formal invitations

Pointed-pen contrast and a continuous joined line give names and headings a ceremonial tone.

Certificates and diplomas

A script derived from a school writing standard fits documents that imitate a clerk's hand.

Period and heritage design

The 1910 model suits early twentieth-century themes in exhibitions, book covers and packaging.

Monograms and signatures

Modest capitals lead smoothly into the lowercase, so initials and short names read as written.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French œ, Œ.

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 Meie Script

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

body {
  font-family: "Meie Script", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Wide setting

The lowercase is extended and strongly slanted, so a word takes more horizontal space than in most scripts.

Small capitals and figures

Capitals and numerals are noticeably smaller than the reach of the lowercase loops.

One style, basic Latin

There is Regular 400 only, with 222 glyphs for Western European languages; the French œ is missing.

FAQs

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