Miniver

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Miniver Regular

About Miniver

Miniver is a slanted script in which the lowercase letters join along the baseline. In the specimen the strokes keep an even, fairly heavy thickness, their ends are cut flat at an angle, and small notches open where one stroke crosses another, which gives the letters a cut-out look. The capitals are drawn with single looping strokes and stand apart from the lowercase that follows. According to the official description, the idea came from a library visit and the DVD of the 1942 film Mrs. Miniver, whose hand-lettered cover title looked contemporary; the inline forms were drawn first and then traced with that cut-out effect. The family is one Regular file with 229 glyphs for Western European Latin and is not a variable font. Google Fonts credits Open Window, the name table names Dathan Boardman, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Miniver works

Film and event titles

The design began with a film title, and a short heading shows the joined, slanted line in the same role.

Cafe and shop logos

Even stroke weight and flat-cut ends keep a one-word logo solid when it is reduced.

Greeting cards

A two or three word phrase reads as brush lettering with a mid-century flavour.

Packaging and labels

The notches at stroke crossings stay visible at label size because the strokes are heavy.

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 Miniver

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Miniver has Regular 400 only.

Lowercase carries the joins

Capitals do not connect to each other, so words set entirely in capitals lose the script flow.

Western European Latin only

Polish ą and ń, Czech č and Turkish ğ and ş are not in the font.

Two credits

Google Fonts lists Open Window; the font file names Dathan Boardman as designer and Open Window as manufacturer.

FAQs

Collections with Miniver

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

• Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

  Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

Similar fonts

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