Rancho

Try Rancho

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rancho Regular

About Rancho

Rancho is a brush script typeface. Its strokes swell and taper as if made with a loaded sign-painter's brush, the letters lean slightly forward, and the lowercase sits close together so that neighbouring letters touch or nearly join. The capitals are narrow and tall with simple forms, without the loops and flourishes of formal scripts; in the specimen they remain readable even when set in a row. Stroke ends are rounded or cut at an angle, and the figures share the same heavy brush rhythm. The official description is one line long and presents Rancho as a relaxed script equally suited to a barn and a country club. Credits differ by source: Google Fonts lists Sideshow as the designer, while the name table and copyright in the font name Font Diner, Inc. A single Regular style is available. Its 227 glyphs cover Western European Latin.

Where Rancho works

Farm shop and market signs

Thick brush strokes read from a distance and look painted by hand.

Restaurant menus

Section headings such as starters and grills take the brush lettering while a plain face lists the dishes.

Food and drink labels

Narrow capitals and tight lowercase fit a product name on a small label.

Flyers for fairs and barbecues

The informal slant and heavy weight set a relaxed tone for event titles.

Short headlines on social media

One heavy style is enough for a few words over a photo.

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
• Estonian

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 Rancho

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

body {
  font-family: "Rancho", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Rancho has Regular 400 only; there is no bold or italic.

Apache license, not OFL

Rancho is under the Apache License 2.0, so copies keep the license text and notices.

Designer credits differ

Google Fonts names Sideshow; the font file names Font Diner, Inc.

Capitals can be set together

Unlike many scripts, the plain capitals in the specimen stay legible in an all-capitals line.

FAQs

Collections with Rancho

• Brush and marker fonts

  Dry-brush scripts, paint-streaked capitals and felt-marker lettering with visible texture, for energetic headings and handmade branding.

Similar fonts

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