I need fonts to coordinate with Mirella Script
June 22, 2017 7:17 AM Subscribe
I need some fonts to coordinate with Mirella Script font. I am not a font geek, so I may not use the right words, but I have Mirella Script as a sort of display font on an image, like a title. I need a similarly scripty-font for a sort of subtitle, and a non-scripty font for something more like "body text." Free for non-commercial use, or pretty damn close.
The Mirella script is not working sub-title-wise because all the flourishes are just too much once you get more than a word or two. I would like something similar, though. Ideally basically this font minus the flourishes. For the font for something more like body text, a suggestion of one the fonts already typically found on computers would be ideal.
This is for print (both on paper and on objects), not for on-screen use. Obviously no body-text on objects.
The Mirella script is not working sub-title-wise because all the flourishes are just too much once you get more than a word or two. I would like something similar, though. Ideally basically this font minus the flourishes. For the font for something more like body text, a suggestion of one the fonts already typically found on computers would be ideal.
This is for print (both on paper and on objects), not for on-screen use. Obviously no body-text on objects.
Questa looks like it might play nice with Mirella and meet your needs: the Grande version could work as a subheading with the original for body copy. Though only the regular weights are available for free, so if you need a bold and italic for the body copy you'd have to spring for those.
posted by fifthpocket at 8:00 AM on June 22, 2017
posted by fifthpocket at 8:00 AM on June 22, 2017
I would like something similar, though.
You kind of don't, though. Big fancy "display" fonts are good for headlines and then we normally contrast that with a paired, very very very readable "body" font. The number 1 rule of designing this kind of stuff if that you can have the most beautiful shit in the world, and but it fails completely if your audience struggles to read it.
Here are a ton of examples where people are showing off display fonts, but you will see that the actual name of the font that is being communicated is almost always written out in a super-readable, very different font.
So I don't know what you are laying out here, but I'd think about something like Whitney in all caps. Or Lato. Or I guess Questa if you really don't want any contrast.
posted by DarlingBri at 10:42 AM on June 22, 2017
You kind of don't, though. Big fancy "display" fonts are good for headlines and then we normally contrast that with a paired, very very very readable "body" font. The number 1 rule of designing this kind of stuff if that you can have the most beautiful shit in the world, and but it fails completely if your audience struggles to read it.
Here are a ton of examples where people are showing off display fonts, but you will see that the actual name of the font that is being communicated is almost always written out in a super-readable, very different font.
So I don't know what you are laying out here, but I'd think about something like Whitney in all caps. Or Lato. Or I guess Questa if you really don't want any contrast.
posted by DarlingBri at 10:42 AM on June 22, 2017
General resource: The Ultimate Guide to Font Pairing
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