Miltonian

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Miltonian Regular

About Miltonian

Miltonian is a display typeface that its maker calls a tattoo font. Every letter in the specimen is drawn as an outline with an empty interior, the contour heavier on one side so the shapes look shaded. Serifs end in curls, the capitals A and M start with a spiral, and the outlines wobble slightly like hand-drawn work. The official notes mention a companion, Miltonian Tattoo, with solid letters; laying one font over the other produces filled-and-outlined effects. A handful of dingbats is included for decoration. Miltonian has one Regular style, is not a variable font, and contains 258 glyphs for the basic Latin set. The font names Pablo Impallari as designer, with Igino Marini in the copyright notice, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The notes record version 1.008, dated January 2016.

Where Miltonian works

Tattoo studio and barber shop graphics

The hollow letters and curled serifs come straight from the tattoo lettering the font is named for.

Posters for fairs and concerts

Outlined capitals with spiral starts make a few words into the main image of a poster.

Labels with a vintage tone

A product name in Miltonian over a coloured panel lets the background show through the letter interiors.

Layered titles

Placed over the solid Miltonian Tattoo companion in a second colour, the outline becomes a two-tone letter.

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
• Estonian

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 Miltonian

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

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

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

Things to know

Outline only

This family contains the hollow version. The solid Miltonian Tattoo is a separate family and is not part of this download.

One style

There is a single Regular font, without bold or italic.

Western European Latin

The 258 glyphs cover the basic Latin set; letters for Polish, Czech or Turkish are not complete.

FAQs

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