Metamorphous

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Metamorphous Regular

About Metamorphous

Metamorphous is a display typeface of medium contrast that mixes letter shapes from different eras. Most characters follow the Renaissance roman pattern with small bracketed serifs, but several break from it: the capital A rises to a pointed arch, the E is a rounded uncial form, the lowercase d bends its ascender back to the left, and u is drawn with a pointed base. The numerals are old-style figures that rise and fall like lowercase letters. The official description says the design draws on Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance models and was first prompted by display fonts, among them the free font Morpheous by Kiwi Media. James Grieshaber is the designer, and the copyright belongs to Sorkin Type Co. Metamorphous has one Regular style with 411 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended, under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Metamorphous works

Fantasy book and game titles

The pointed-arch A and uncial E give a title a medieval flavour while the rest stays readable as roman type.

Role-playing sheets and card names

Because most letters keep roman skeletons, mixed-case names and short rules headings remain legible.

Posters for historical events

Romanesque and Gothic details fit fairs, concerts of early music and museum nights.

Labels with a period theme

A brewery, bookbinder or candle maker can set a product name in capitals that look hand-cut and old.

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 Metamorphous

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

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

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

Things to know

Not a true blackletter

Despite its Gothic touches, Metamorphous is built on round roman forms, not on the broken strokes of blackletter; it is classed here as a display face.

One style

There is Regular 400 only, with no bold or italic.

Old-style figures

Numerals vary in height and several drop below the baseline, which suits titles more than tables.

FAQs

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All display fonts