Ruthie

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ruthie Regular

About Ruthie

Ruthie is a script typeface written with a fine pen: strokes are light throughout and swell only slightly on the downstrokes. The letters lean steeply to the right. In the specimen the lowercase is small next to the capitals, with long looped descenders on f, g, p and y, and each capital carries an extra hairline flourish that crosses the main strokes. Its official description sums it up as a calligraphic script with ornate capital forms. Ruthie has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. The 509 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and the letters needed for Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer, the copyright notice names The Ruthie Project Authors, and the font is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Ruthie works

Names on wedding stationery

A flourished capital followed by the small lowercase suits a couple's names on an invitation or place card.

Monograms

The hairline loops around each capital make two or three initials into an ornament on their own.

Certificates and menus

A heading or a recipient's name in Ruthie sits above details set in a plain text face.

Signature-style sign-offs

The thin, slanted line reads like a pen signature at the foot of a letter or card.

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 Ruthie

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Ruthie has a single Regular style. There is no bold for emphasis.

Small lowercase

The lowercase is much shorter than the capitals, so Ruthie needs a large size before the small letters are legible.

Capitals are for word beginnings

In the specimen's all-capitals row the flourishes overlap. The capitals are drawn to lead into lowercase.

Thin strokes

The lines are hairline-thin everywhere; on low-resolution screens or dark photographs they can break up.

FAQs

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