Rouge Script

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Rouge Script Regular

About Rouge Script

Rouge Script is a script typeface that started as copperplate-nib writing and was redrawn with the stroke endings of a brush script, which gives a formal structure a more relaxed finish. In the specimen the lowercase joins along the baseline with hairline connectors and fuller downstrokes, while the capitals open with curled entry loops and long flourishes. The slant is shallow for a script of this kind, a choice the official notes link to legibility and cleaner rendering on screens. The family is one Regular style with no bold and no variable axis. It holds 220 glyphs in the basic Latin subset, enough for English, French, Spanish, German and the Nordic languages. Sabrina Mariela Lopez designed it and Typesenses holds the copyright; the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Rouge Script works

Names on invitations

Curled capitals followed by joined lowercase set a couple's or a host's name as the main line of a card.

Fashion and beauty titles

Thin connectors and soft brush endings suit a magazine heading or a lookbook cover line set large.

Food and bakery branding

A short product or shop name in the script reads as a signature on boxes, bags and window lettering.

Short phrases on screens

The shallow slant keeps a two- or three-word heading readable on a web page banner.

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Rouge Script has a single Regular weight and no italic or bold companion.

Capitals are for word starts

In the specimen the row of capitals overlaps where flourishes meet; they are drawn to lead into lowercase, not to be set as all caps.

Basic Latin subset

The font lists the Latin subset only, with 220 glyphs. There is no Latin Extended, Cyrillic or Greek set.

FAQs

Collections with Rouge Script

• Script fonts for wedding invitations

  Formal and semi-formal connected scripts for names, invitations and place cards, from copperplate hairlines to relaxed pen writing.

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