Oregano

Try Oregano

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Oregano Regular Italic

About Oregano

Oregano is a display typeface drawn like quick brush lettering. Astigmatic based it on the cartoon style of calligrapher and logo designer Rand Holub, a manner of hand lettering which, according to the foundry's notes, appeared in brochures and advertisements from the late 1940s through the 1960s. The specimen shows unconnected letters with a slight forward lean even in the Regular, strokes that widen and narrow as a brush would, and rough, squared-off stroke ends that look like the brush lifting. Capitals are simple and narrow, while Q, R and S finish with a small wave under the baseline; the lowercase g has a looped tail. The family is one weight in two styles, Regular and Italic. It contains 372 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended and is not a variable font.

Where Oregano works

Retro advertising layouts

The lettering style comes from mid-century brochures and adverts, so it suits a period pastiche directly.

Food menus and cafe boards

Brush-written dish names look hand-lettered while staying more regular than real handwriting.

Packaging for snacks and sauces

A product name set in the Italic gains movement on a label.

Cartoon and comic titles

The style is described as cartoon lettering, a natural fit for strip titles and captions.

Greeting cards

Short friendly messages read as written with a brush pen.

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

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 Oregano

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 Oregano 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: "Oregano";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Oregano-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Oregano";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Oregano-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Oregano", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Oregano 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=Oregano:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular already leans

The upright style has a slight slant of its own; the Italic leans further.

One weight

Both styles are weight 400. No bold exists.

Latin only

Latin and Latin Extended are covered, without Cyrillic, Greek or Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Oregano

• Mid-century display fonts from the 1950s to the 1970s

  Bouncing, hand-lettered display faces after post-war advertising, cartoons, motel signs and record covers.

Similar fonts

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