Pinyon Script

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Pinyon Script Regular

About Pinyon Script

Pinyon Script is a formal script typeface in the round hand tradition. The letters slant steeply to the right, the lowercase joins into a continuous line, and the difference between the hairline upstrokes and the swelling downstrokes is strong. Capitals are built from loops and long entry flourishes, and descenders on letters such as f, g, j and y swing far below the line. Because the thin strokes are so fine, the official notes recommend the face for larger sizes. Nicole Fally is credited as designer; the name table also names Eben Sorkin, and Sorkin Type Co. appears as manufacturer. The notes record a glyph set and language expansion in June 2022 and a further update in 2024. The single Regular font now holds 834 glyphs across the latin, latin-ext and vietnamese subsets under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Pinyon Script works

Formal invitations

Looped capitals and a steep slant suit the names and opening line of a wedding or gala invitation.

Certificates and diplomas

A recipient's name set large shows the hairline upstrokes and flourishes that mark a round hand script.

Menus and place cards

Course titles and guest names can be set in the script while a plain text face handles descriptions.

Monograms and boutique wordmarks

Two or three flourished capitals form a monogram; a short brand name works where a penned signature look is wanted.

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
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Pinyon 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 Pinyon 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: "Pinyon Script";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/PinyonScript-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

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

Things to know

Hairlines need size

The thinnest strokes are very fine. At small sizes or in low-resolution print they can break up, so the face is intended for larger settings.

One style, no bold

Pinyon Script has a single Regular file and no variable axes.

Capitals lead into lowercase

The capitals carry wide flourishes that overlap their neighbours in the specimen's all-capitals line; they are drawn to start a word.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Coverage is Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese only.

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