The Nautigal

Try The Nautigal

Weights and styles

• Regular 400The Nautigal Regular
• Bold 700The Nautigal Bold

About The Nautigal

The Nautigal is a script typeface with a steep forward slant, hairline joins and capitals that open with long, nearly horizontal entry strokes. Its official notes say the design came out of lettering made for a friend's yacht, and the specimen keeps that sign-written sweep: the T and N start far to the left of their stems, and the g ends in a wide open loop. The lowercase is very small in proportion to the capitals and links letter to letter. Two static files are provided, Regular 400 and Bold 700; the Bold thickens the downstrokes while the joins stay fine. It is not a variable font. The 630 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and the fonts are published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where The Nautigal works

Boat names and marine lettering

The design started as lettering for a yacht, and its long entry strokes fill the width of a transom or a sign.

Wedding stationery

Sweeping capitals set couples' names and headings on invitations, menus and place cards.

Signature wordmarks

A name in the Bold cut holds up as a logo for studios, salons and wine labels.

Headings over photographs

Bold 700 keeps its downstrokes visible when a short line is placed over an image.

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 The Nautigal

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 The Nautigal 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: "The Nautigal";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TheNautigal-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "The Nautigal";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/TheNautigal-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "The Nautigal", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves The Nautigal 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=The+Nautigal:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Regular and Bold, no italic

The script is already slanted; the family offers the two weights and nothing else.

Very small lowercase

Lowercase letters are a fraction of the capital height, so the face needs large sizes to stay readable.

Capitals start a word

The all-capitals row in the specimen collides, because the entry strokes are drawn to lead into lowercase.

FAQs

Collections with The Nautigal

• 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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