Mynerve

Try Mynerve

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Mynerve Regular

About Mynerve

Mynerve is a handwriting typeface that looks written with a round-tipped marker. In the specimen the strokes keep one thickness and end in round tips, the letters are printed separately rather than joined, and their heights and angles shift slightly from one letter to the next. The lowercase is narrow with tall ascenders, and the capitals are plain block letters. The official description says the face was made to annotate and comment on documents, and that two sets of alternates and several ligatures for frequent combinations vary repeated letters so the result resembles real writing. Mynerve is a single Regular file with 985 glyphs and is not a variable font. Besides Western and Central European Latin it contains Greek and Vietnamese characters. Carolina Short is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Mynerve works

Annotations on documents

Margin notes, arrows and comments set in Mynerve stand apart from the typeset text they refer to.

Notes in slides and mockups

Unjoined marker letters label a diagram or a wireframe the way a reviewer would by hand.

Informal captions and posts

Alternates for repeated letters keep a short handwritten caption from looking stamped.

Greek handwritten notes

A Greek character set is included, so the same hand can annotate Greek 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
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: greek, 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 Mynerve

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

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

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

Things to know

Alternates and ligatures

According to the official description, two alternate sets and some ligatures change repeated letters; they depend on OpenType support in the software.

Printed, not cursive

The letters do not connect, so Mynerve reads as casual print handwriting.

One weight

Mynerve has Regular 400 only.

No Cyrillic

Latin, Greek and Vietnamese are covered; Cyrillic letters are not in the font.

FAQs

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