Mrs Saint Delafield

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mrs Saint Delafield Regular

About Mrs Saint Delafield

Mrs Saint Delafield is a script typeface written in a thin line with a steep rightward slant. Its capitals are several times taller than the small letters and open with long horizontal entry strokes and loops, while the tiny lowercase joins into a fast, signature-like line. The design comes from the Charles Bluemlein Script Collection. As the official description tells it, those scripts were made by gathering signatures and constructing whole alphabets out of them; because the results no longer resembled the originals, each received a fictitious name, and the styles were shown in Higgins Ink catalogues. Alejandro Paul and Sudtipos produced the digital version and kept the name Bluemlein had given it. The family is one Regular style with 238 glyphs for the basic Latin character set, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mrs Saint Delafield works

Signature lines

The alphabet was built from real signatures, so a name set in it reads as a signed sign-off under a letter or on a certificate.

Names on wedding stationery

Tall capitals with long entry strokes make the initials of two names the focus of an invitation or place card.

Wordmarks for boutiques and studios

A single capital followed by small joined letters forms a mark that resembles a founder's signature.

Short headings on beauty and fashion pages

One or two words in the thin, slanted line add a handwritten accent above plain text.

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 Mrs Saint Delafield

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

body {
  font-family: "Mrs Saint Delafield", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Capitals cannot be set in a row

The specimen shows a line of capitals overlapping into a tangle. Each capital is meant to be followed by lowercase letters.

The lowercase is very small

Small letters are a fraction of the capital height and the line is thin, so the script needs large sizes to stay readable.

One style, basic Latin

Mrs Saint Delafield has a single Regular style and covers the basic Latin character set; the Latin Extended set is not complete.

FAQs

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