Norican

Try Norican

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Norican Regular

About Norican

Norican is a display script with a heavy, even stroke and a moderate slant. The specimen shows lowercase letters that link along the baseline through short, thick joins, rounded stroke ends, a small loop inside the o and an x-height large enough to stay readable at heading sizes. The capitals are rounder and more decorative, with curled entry strokes and loops, and they are drawn to begin a word. Vernon Adams built Norican by merging a number of old script typefaces, chiefly one from the 1920s, and intended it for unrestricted use in web browsers on desktop and mobile devices. An update in August 2023 enlarged the glyph set and made small aesthetic changes. There is one Regular style, with no bold or italic, and 393 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Norican works

Logos and wordmarks

Thick joined strokes hold together as a single shape, the way a painted shopfront name does.

Packaging with a 1920s flavour

The design draws on script typefaces of that period, which suits food, drink and barbershop-style labels.

Web page headings

Norican was designed for browsers, and its heavy stroke and large x-height survive at moderate heading sizes.

Cards and invitations

A greeting or event title in Norican gives a warm, informal script headline.

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

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 Norican

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Norican has Regular 400 only, drawn heavy. There is no lighter or bolder cut.

Capitals lead, lowercase follows

In the specimen a row of capitals runs together; the capitals are meant as initials before joined lowercase.

Latin and Latin Extended

The 393 glyphs cover the Latin and Latin Extended subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Norican

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All script fonts