Niconne

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Niconne Regular

About Niconne

Niconne is a script typeface with the rhythm of a formal cursive hand: the lowercase slants to the right, thick downstrokes alternate with hairline upstrokes, and letters end in small exit strokes that reach toward their neighbours. The capitals are the showpiece. Each opens with a looped or curled entry stroke, and in the specimen a row of them overlaps, so they work as initials followed by lowercase. Numerals slant with the text, and the ampersand is an ornate loop. According to the official description, Vernon Adams based the design on a typeface issued by the Stephenson Blake foundry in 1925 and reshaped it to serve as a web font. The family has one Regular font with 286 glyphs and is not a variable font. Its Latin set serves English and Western European languages. Niconne is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Niconne works

Wedding stationery

Flourished capitals open the names on invitations, place cards and orders of service.

Restaurant menus

A course title or house name in the slanted cursive sits above plainer type for the dishes.

Monograms and initials

Each capital carries its own loop, enough to stand alone as an initial on a seal or letterhead.

Labels for wine, chocolate and cosmetics

Thick-and-thin contrast gives a product name the look of penned lettering on a small label.

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 Niconne

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Niconne has Regular 400 only. There is no bold, and the slant is part of the design.

Capitals overlap in rows

Words set entirely in capitals collide in the specimen; the capitals are drawn to lead into lowercase.

Latin subset only

The Latin Extended set is incomplete, so names with Central European accents should be checked before printing.

Two spellings of the name

The official description and the reserved font name in the license notice spell it Nicone; the font and its listing use Niconne.

FAQs

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