# Monsieur La Doulaise font

> A hairline formal script from the Charles Bluemlein collection, revived by Sudtipos with heavily looped capitals.

Monsieur La Doulaise is a formal script typeface by Alejandro Paul of Sudtipos, a digital revival of one of the Charles Bluemlein scripts. Monsieur La Doulaise has one Regular style with 234 glyphs in the basic Latin set. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits wedding stationery, monograms and short ceremonial headings.

## Facts

- Classification: [Script](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/script)
- Designed by: Sudtipos
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 234
- Character sets: latin
- Last updated: 2025-09-08
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Monsieur+La+Doulaise
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/monsieur-la-doulaise
- Tagged for: Logos, Weddings, Invitations, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2011 Alejandro Paul (sudtipos@sudtipos.com), with Reserved Font Name "Monsieur La Doulaise"

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Monsieur La Doulaise free for commercial use?

Yes. Monsieur La Doulaise is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Monsieur La Doulaise?

Monsieur La Doulaise was made by Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos as a digital version of a script from the Charles Bluemlein collection.

### Where does the name Monsieur La Doulaise come from?

Monsieur La Doulaise is one of the fictitious names Charles Bluemlein gave to scripts built from collected signatures; the revival kept those names.

### How many weights does Monsieur La Doulaise have?

Monsieur La Doulaise has one weight, Regular 400.

### Which languages does Monsieur La Doulaise support?

Monsieur La Doulaise includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Catalan, Estonian and the Nordic languages.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/monsieur-la-doulaise (trendhub)