Oranienbaum

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Oranienbaum Regular

About Oranienbaum

Oranienbaum is a serif typeface with strong contrast between thick vertical stems and very thin hairlines. In the specimen the letters are narrow and upright, the serifs are flat hairlines set at right angles to the stems, and letters such as a, c, f and r finish in round ball terminals. The official notes describe a modern Antiqua built on classical models and typical of faces from the first quarter of the twentieth century: marked serifs, contrasting geometry, straight angles played against flowing curves. Oranienbaum is one Regular 400 file with no italic or bold, and it is not a variable font. Its 416 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Cyrillic, including the letters for Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian. Oleg Pospelov was the main designer, and Jovanny Lemonad served as art director, engineer and publisher. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Oranienbaum works

Magazine headlines

Thick stems against hairline serifs give a headline the sharp, formal contrast of a modern Antiqua.

Titles in Latin and Cyrillic

Both scripts share one design, so a Russian and an English title can sit on the same cover.

Book covers and theatre posters

Narrow letters fit a long title on one line while the ball terminals add detail at poster size.

Menus and invitations

A heading or name in Oranienbaum sets a formal tone above text in a plainer face.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

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

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, 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 Oranienbaum

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

body {
  font-family: "Oranienbaum", serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Oranienbaum has Regular 400 only. There is no italic and no bold.

Hairlines are very thin

The thin strokes and serifs are fine lines in the specimen, so the face is at its clearest in large sizes.

Cyrillic without the extended set

Basic Cyrillic is covered; the Cyrillic Extended subset is not. Greek and Vietnamese are also absent from the subsets.

FAQs

Collections with Oranienbaum

• Fonts that support Cyrillic

  Open-license families with Cyrillic glyphs beside Latin: text sans and serifs, a monospace, scripts and display faces.

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