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Sue Ellen Francisco

Tall, skinny marker handwriting by Kimberly Geswein, with narrow capitals about twice the height of the lowercase.

Handwriting 1 style by Kimberly Geswein OFL

Sue Ellen Francisco is a tall, narrow handwriting typeface that Kimberly Geswein based on her own writing and drew with a graphics tablet. Sue Ellen Francisco has one Regular style with 290 glyphs for basic Latin. Sue Ellen Francisco is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits narrow headings, labels and informal notes.

Sue Ellen Francisco font preview card
Preview drawn by trendhub from the font files.
Designer
Kimberly Geswein
Classification
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
290
Languages checked
14 see the list
Last updated
version 1.002 2007

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Sue Ellen Francisco; the download contains the complete files.

Sue Ellen Francisco font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Sue Ellen Francisco specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Sue Ellen Francisco Regular

About Sue Ellen Francisco

Sue Ellen Francisco is a handwriting typeface with very tall, thin letterforms. Its designer says it comes from her own handwriting, was drawn with a graphics tablet, takes its name from a nickname she gave a friend, and is one of her earlier fonts, imperfect by her own account. In the specimen the capitals are narrow and stand about twice as high as the small lowercase, strokes are even and rounded at the ends like a marker line, and long descenders hang from g, j, p, q and y. The numerals are as tall and narrow as the capitals. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 290 glyphs cover the basic Latin set, enough for languages such as Spanish, French and German. Kimberly Geswein designed it, and it is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Sue Ellen Francisco works

Headings in narrow spaces
Skinny capitals fit a long phrase into a narrow column or a tall banner.
Handwritten labels
Marker-like strokes with round ends suit jar labels, tags and planner headings.
Posters with a personal tone
Set in capitals at a large size, the uneven hand-drawn lines stay visible.
Notes and annotations on images
The big step between capitals and lowercase reads as a quick handwritten comment.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 290 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2010, Kimberly Geswein (kimberlygeswein.com)

What the license allows

  • Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
  • Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
  • Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions

  • The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
  • A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
  • The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Sue Ellen Francisco

Google Sans Flex Sans Serif

Sue Ellen Francisco is a handwriting face for headings; Google Sans Flex is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Almendra Serif

Sue Ellen Francisco is a handwriting face for headings; Almendra is a serif family with 2 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Inria Sans Sans Serif

Sue Ellen Francisco is a handwriting face for headings; Inria Sans is a sans serif family with 3 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Sue Ellen Francisco 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Sue Ellen Francisco";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/SueEllenFrancisco-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Sue Ellen Francisco", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Sue Ellen Francisco with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

Small lowercase
Lowercase letters are much shorter than capitals, so mixed-case text looks smaller than the point size suggests.
Basic Latin only
The subset is Latin, without Latin Extended.
One style
Regular only; there is no bold or italic.

FAQs

Is Sue Ellen Francisco free for commercial use?

Yes. Sue Ellen Francisco is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: it may be used in personal and commercial work, modified and redistributed. It cannot be sold by itself, and a modified version must keep the same license.

Who designed Sue Ellen Francisco?

Sue Ellen Francisco was designed by Kimberly Geswein and comes from her own handwriting.

Where does the name Sue Ellen Francisco come from?

According to the designer, Sue Ellen Francisco takes its name from a nickname she gave a friend.

How many weights does Sue Ellen Francisco have?

Sue Ellen Francisco has one weight, Regular 400, and is not a variable font.

Which languages does Sue Ellen Francisco support?

Sue Ellen Francisco includes the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Its character set is basic Latin.

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