Oleo Script

Try Oleo Script

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Oleo Script Regular
• Bold 700Oleo Script Bold

About Oleo Script

Oleo Script is a script typeface in which each letter stands on its own instead of linking to the next. The specimen shows a forward slant, thick strokes that swell and taper like lettering done with a broad brush, and capitals that keep simple shapes with few flourishes. Because the letters are separate and the forms are sturdy, words stay legible where a joined script would tangle. The family has two weights, Regular and Bold, and both are already heavy; the difference between them is modest. Each font contains 235 glyphs in the Latin subset. Soytutype is credited as designer and holds the copyright. The official notes mention a separate sister family with swash capitals. Oleo Script was added to Google Fonts in 2012.

Where Oleo Script works

Food and drink packaging

Thick, slanted lettering reads as a hand-painted label on jars, bottles and menus.

Headlines and captions

Unjoined letters keep short titles legible at sizes where connected scripts close up.

Greeting cards and invitations

A name or greeting in Oleo Script gives an informal, hand-lettered tone without ornate capitals.

Posters and adverts

Bold holds a single word or phrase at large size with strong weight.

Book jackets

The official notes list book covers among the intended settings for a title line.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

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 Oleo Script

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 Oleo Script 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: "Oleo Script";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OleoScript-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Oleo Script";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/OleoScript-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Oleo Script", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Oleo Script 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=Oleo+Script:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Letters do not connect

Oleo Script is a non-connected script: there are no joining strokes between lowercase letters.

Small character set

With 235 glyphs, the letters for Turkish, Polish and Czech are incomplete. French is covered except for the rarely used capital Ÿ.

Swash capitals are a separate family

The swash version mentioned in the notes is not part of this package.

FAQs

Collections with Oleo Script

• Fonts for restaurant and café menus

  Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

Similar fonts

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