Waterfall

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Waterfall Regular

About Waterfall

Waterfall is a calligraphic script drawn with a thin pen line and a strong forward slant. In the specimen the capitals are several times the height of the lowercase and start with long, nearly horizontal entry strokes that sweep in from the left, while the lowercase is small and joined, with narrow loops on its ascenders and descenders. The contrast between thick and thin is gentle, so the whole word stays light on the page. The official description places the design between traditional hand-lettered italic and more formal connecting script. The family is one Regular file and is not a variable font. It contains 1,879 glyphs for 586 encoded characters, so most glyphs are additional forms beyond the basic character set. Coverage includes Western and Central European Latin and Vietnamese. Robert Leuschke is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Waterfall works

Invitation headings

The long entry strokes of the capitals frame a pair of names at the top of a card.

Signature-style wordmarks

A single word in the thin, slanted line reads like a signature written with a fine pen.

Stationery and monogrammed notes

The light stroke leaves plenty of white space, which suits letterheads and personal cards.

Short quotes on cards

A line of a few words keeps the small lowercase large enough to read.

Names in many languages

Central European and Vietnamese accents are included, so guest names keep their diacritics.

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 Waterfall

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

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

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

Things to know

Very small lowercase

The lowercase is a fraction of the capital height in the specimen, so Waterfall needs generous sizes.

One style

There is a single Regular weight, with no bold.

Capitals are initials

The sweeping entry strokes of neighbouring capitals run into each other in an all-capital line.

FAQs

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