Moon Dance

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Moon Dance Regular

About Moon Dance

Moon Dance is a calligraphic typeface that comes in two flavours inside one font. The main style, shown in the specimen, has capitals close to simple slanted roman letters, with only the Q and a few entry strokes extended, set against a narrow italic lowercase with looped descenders on f, g, j and y. A stylistic set swaps in more flourished capitals and lowercase letters for a hand-lettered effect. Strokes are thin with gentle pen contrast, and the lowercase is small in relation to the capitals. The family has one Regular style, is not a variable font and holds 1,024 glyphs covering Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. The official notes suggest tags, invitations and other projects that call for a personal touch. Robert Leuschke is credited as the designer.

Where Moon Dance works

Invitations with two levels of ornament

Names can take the flourished stylistic set while the remaining lines stay in the plainer main style.

Gift tags and place cards

The official notes mention tags; the plain capitals keep a single name readable at card size.

Words set in capitals

Because the default capitals are simple slanted forms, a short word in capitals stays legible, unlike in most scripts.

Personal stationery

The italic pen lowercase gives a letterhead or a note card the look of careful handwriting.

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
• Romanian
• 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 Moon Dance

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

body {
  font-family: "Moon Dance", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

The flourished forms are a stylistic set

They are not a separate file. Software must support OpenType stylistic sets to switch them on.

One style

Moon Dance has a single Regular style, with no bold.

Thin strokes

The pen line is light throughout the specimen, so the face needs a generous size on screens.

FAQs

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