MonteCarlo

Try MonteCarlo

Weights and styles

• Regular 400MonteCarlo Regular

About MonteCarlo

MonteCarlo is a formal script typeface in which the lowercase letters connect along the baseline. Its slant is slight compared with most engraved scripts, which the official notes give as the reason it stays legible. The specimen shows strong contrast between hairline connecting strokes and swelling downstrokes, small round lowercase letters with looped ascenders, and capitals that open with long horizontal entry strokes and end in spirals. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 963 glyphs, a large number for a script with a single style, include the additional flourished forms that the notes mention for customising a setting. Character sets cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is credited as the designer, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where MonteCarlo works

Wedding invitations

Hairline joins and spiral-ended capitals give names the look of engraved stationery.

Certificates and diplomas

The modest slant keeps a recipient's name readable while the capitals supply ceremony.

Monograms

Capitals with long entry strokes and loops can stand alone as initials on seals, napkins and letterheads.

Custom headings with alternates

Flourished alternate glyphs let the same word be set plainly or with extra swashes.

Perfume and jewellery labels

High contrast between thin and thick strokes suits small, formal product names at a generous size.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 MonteCarlo

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

MonteCarlo has a single Regular style with no bold cut.

Hairlines need size

The connecting strokes are very thin, so small sizes and reversed-out printing can lose them.

Alternates need OpenType support

The flourished forms are extra glyphs in the font; reaching them depends on software that exposes OpenType alternates.

FAQs

Collections with MonteCarlo

• Script fonts for wedding invitations

  Formal and semi-formal connected scripts for names, invitations and place cards, from copperplate hairlines to relaxed pen writing.

Similar fonts

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