Mr De Haviland

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mr De Haviland Regular

About Mr De Haviland

Mr De Haviland is a script typeface with thin strokes, a strong rightward slant and a very small lowercase beside tall, looping capitals. It belongs to the Charles Bluemlein Script Collection: according to the official notes, Bluemlein gathered signatures, built complete alphabets from them and gave the results fictitious names, which the digital versions keep. Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos redrew the scripts as expanded fonts. The lowercase joins into a continuous line, with long looped ascenders and descenders, and the numerals are slanted and much larger than the lowercase. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 234 glyphs cover the basic Latin set. The font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with Mr De Haviland as a Reserved Font Name.

Where Mr De Haviland works

Wedding invitations

Hairline strokes and looping capitals set the couple's names in the manner of a formal handwritten signature.

Signature lines

The design grew out of real signatures, so a name set in it reads as a signed line on certificates and letters.

Monograms and initials

Capitals are far larger than the lowercase and carry wide loops, which turns two or three initials into a motif.

Short display lines on cards

A few words at a large size leave room for the long ascenders and descenders.

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 Mr De Haviland

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

body {
  font-family: "Mr De Haviland", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Very small lowercase

In the specimen the lowercase is a fraction of the capital height, so the font needs large sizes to stay readable.

Capitals are not for all-caps setting

A row of capitals in the specimen overlaps into a tangle; they are drawn to begin a word.

Basic Latin only

The subset is Latin; Latin Extended is not covered.

FAQs

Collections with Mr De Haviland

• Signature-style fonts

  Fine-line scripts and fast cursive hands that look like a signed name, for sign-offs, photography marks and personal branding.

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