Shalimar

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Shalimar Regular

About Shalimar

Shalimar is a script typeface that Robert Leuschke modelled on writing with a flat nib pen. The broad nib shows in the way strokes switch abruptly between thick and thin as the direction changes, and in the tapered, flicked ends of letters. The lowercase is very small in relation to the capitals, with long ascenders on b, d, h, k and l and deep, hooked descenders on f, g, j and y, so words look light and widely spaced vertically. Capitals are open, loosely drawn script forms; a stylistic set replaces them with more Roman shapes when the script versions are too free. The official description calls the design upright, though the specimen shows a gentle lean to the right. One Regular style holds 1,021 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Shalimar is not a variable font.

Where Shalimar works

Invitation and card text

Pen-written forms with long ascenders give a few lines of text the look of a handwritten note.

Quotations and verses

The light, airy texture suits a short poem or motto set with generous line spacing.

Names with a choice of capitals

The stylistic set of Roman-style capitals offers a plainer initial when the script capital is hard to read.

Labels for crafted goods

A product name in a broad-nib hand suggests something written by the maker.

Accented names

With 1,021 glyphs covering Latin Extended and Vietnamese, accented guest names stay in the same script.

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 Shalimar

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

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

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

Things to know

Small x-height

The lowercase bodies are tiny next to the ascenders, so Shalimar must be set larger than a text face to be read.

Line spacing

Long ascenders and descenders need open leading, or lines will collide.

One style

There is a single style, Regular 400, with no bold.

FAQs

Collections with Shalimar

• Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

  Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

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