Shojumaru

Try Shojumaru

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Shojumaru Regular

About Shojumaru

Shojumaru is a display typeface made of thick, wedge-shaped strokes that taper and flare like marks from a loaded brush. Sharp spurs project from the corners of letters such as A, H and N, bowls are cut with slanted notches, and the letters sit wide and low. Typing lowercase produces small capitals, so every word is set in capital forms of two heights. According to the official notes, the lettering of a poster for the 1957 film Sayonara was the model, and the design blends that brush-wedge genre with more traditional letter shapes instead of following it strictly. The font has one style and 373 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Astigmatic is credited as the designer; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, trading as Astigmatic.

Where Shojumaru works

Film and event posters

The model was a 1950s cinema poster, and the wide, heavy letters are sized for a title that fills the sheet.

Titles in capitals and small capitals

Because lowercase keys give small capitals, a title gets a large initial and smaller following letters without extra formatting.

Restaurant and product logos

Spurred corners and flared strokes give a short name a recognisable outline.

Game and comic titles

Dense black shapes with pointed terminals hold up over illustrated backgrounds.

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
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. 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 Shojumaru

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

body {
  font-family: "Shojumaru", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

No true lowercase

The lowercase positions hold smaller capitals. Text cannot be set in mixed upper- and lowercase forms.

One heavy style

Shojumaru has a single Regular style and no italic or lighter weight.

Reserved Font Name

The license notice reserves the name Shojumaru, so modified versions need another name.

FAQs

Collections with Shojumaru

• Fonts inspired by film posters and title cards

  Display faces whose designers name a film poster, a cinema tradition or a title screen as their source, from 1930s scripts to action-movie slabs.

Similar fonts

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