Mouse Memoirs

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mouse Memoirs Regular

About Mouse Memoirs

Mouse Memoirs is a display typeface that recalls the title lettering of mid-century cartoon comics. The official notes trace it to vintage cartoon comic books published in the 1950s and 60s. In the specimen the letters are tall, narrow and dark, yet nothing is ruled straight: stems flare a little towards one end, curves are slightly lopsided and neighbouring letters differ in height by a hair, as in lettering done with a brush. The lowercase is large in relation to the capitals, so mixed-case words keep the compact, column-like look of the capitals. The family consists of a single Regular file with 377 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It was made by Astigmatic, and the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1, with Mouse Memoirs as a Reserved Font Name.

Where Mouse Memoirs works

Children's book covers

Wobbly, friendly letters suit titles for young readers, one of the uses the designer names.

Comic strips and cartoon titles

The style comes from comic-book lettering, so it fits panel captions, logos and episode cards.

Party invitations and school posters

Narrow letters fit a long event name on one line while the uneven edges keep the tone light.

Toy and snack packaging

Tall dark capitals read from a shelf, and the hand-cut outline signals fun instead of formality.

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

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Mouse Memoirs

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

body {
  font-family: "Mouse Memoirs", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

Single style

Mouse Memoirs has only Regular 400. There is no italic or second weight.

Narrow by design

Letters are strongly condensed; at small sizes the tight counters make long passages tiring to read.

Latin Extended included

The 377 glyphs include the letters needed for languages such as Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

FAQs

Collections with Mouse Memoirs

• Comic book and cartoon lettering fonts

  Hand-lettered comic dialogue faces, sound-effect capitals and bouncy cartoon titles for comics, kids' media and humorous graphics.

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