Over the Rainbow

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Over the Rainbow Regular

About Over the Rainbow

Over the Rainbow is a handwriting typeface that reproduces a quick, upright personal hand. The line is thin and nearly even, the letters are tall and narrow with long ascenders and looped descenders, and sizes and angles vary from one letter to the next, as they do in real writing. The capital A crosses itself with a wide stroke, the x and y are drawn with loops, and the percent sign is a scribbled pair of curls. Kimberly Geswein describes the style as slightly connected without being a true script: some pairs touch, most letters stand apart. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 356 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Over the Rainbow works

Handwritten notes on a page

A thin pen line and uneven letter sizes make an annotation or margin note look written by hand.

Greeting cards

The tall looped letters give a short message a personal tone.

Scrapbook and journal layouts

Captions under photos read as the owner's own writing.

Informal quotes for social posts

One or two lines at a large size show the loops of x, y and the capitals.

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
• 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 Over the Rainbow

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

body {
  font-family: "Over the Rainbow", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Over the Rainbow has a single Regular file. There is no bold, and the thin line cannot be made heavier.

Not a connected script

Only some letters join. The designer's own description is slightly connected, not a true script.

Thin strokes

The line is fine, so the face needs a generous size and a plain background to stay legible.

FAQs

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