Monsieur La Doulaise

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Monsieur La Doulaise Regular

About Monsieur La Doulaise

Monsieur La Doulaise is a formal connected script in the copperplate manner. The specimen shows hairline strokes with only slight swelling on the downstrokes, a steep slant, a tiny lowercase, and capitals wrapped in several concentric loops that spread far to either side of the letter. It belongs to the Charles Bluemlein Script Collection. According to the official notes, those scripts were built in the 1930s by collecting signatures and constructing whole alphabets from them; because the results no longer resembled the signatures, each was given a fictitious name, and the designs were shown in Higgins Ink catalogues. Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos revived the set digitally and kept the invented names. The family is one Regular style with 234 glyphs covering basic Latin and is not a variable font. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Monsieur La Doulaise works

Wedding invitation names

Looped capitals and a hairline joined lowercase set a couple's names in the manner of engraved stationery.

Monograms

Each capital carries enough flourish to stand alone as an initial on a seal, napkin or letterhead.

Certificates and menus for formal events

A single heading line in the script signals ceremony above text set in a plain face.

Perfume and jewellery labels

Hairline strokes at generous size give a brand name a signature-like delicacy.

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 Monsieur La Doulaise

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

body {
  font-family: "Monsieur La Doulaise", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Hairline strokes

The line is extremely thin in the specimen and will break up at small sizes or in low-resolution print.

Capitals overlap one another

The all-capitals line in the specimen is an unreadable tangle; capitals work only as initials.

Basic Latin only

The 234 glyphs are in the latin subset; Latin Extended is not listed for lack of coverage.

FAQs

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