FontDiscovery 🖼️ 59: Use this Expressive Script Font for Your Next Creative Project!
I'm Hua, a designer and bootstrapping founder building Typogram, a brand design tool. As part of running Typogram, I create this digestible weekly guide with fonts, colors, and design ideas to help founders, creators, and makers step up their game in marketing and get creative!
Hi Everyone 👋
I hope you are having a fantastic week! Last week was a busy one for me. As I have shared in the last post, my co-founder and I are busy working on the launch of Typogram’s preorder. This weekend, I finally wrapped up my work for writing copy for the new landing page, which means, we are one step closer. We have also been asking our past customers for testimonials and we have finally finished gathering those. It feels like things are slowly coming together. I can’t wait to share more!
How is your week so far? I would love to hear about it via your reply!
In This Issue…
- Font of the Week: Courgette
- Design Idea of the Week: Olympic Mascots
- Color Inspiration of the Week: Painted Pastel
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Font of the Week
About Courgette
Courgette is a brushy, italic script font perfect for your marketing needs. Compared to Oregano, a similar brush font we have covered in the past, Courgette has thicker strokes and feels more comforting and casual. Scripts like Courgette are found in local businesses like cafes, restaurants, coffee shops, and crafts and DIY items. The slant in this script makes it feel extra comforting and personable.
Font Detail
- One weight
- Brushy and consistent stroke width
- Slanted axis (right-leaning)
Specific Usage Tips
How to use Courgette for logo?
Courgette communicates warmth, artfulness, and creativity. It is comforting yet expressive. Courgette is perfect for brands looking to add a creative, comforting, DIY voice.
How to use Courgette for branding and marketing?
Courgette is a display font. It is not suitable for long paragraphs small sizes. It is perfect to pair with an illustration or on packaging in big font sizes to grab customers' attention. Courgette makes good pairings with sans serifs like Roboto.
Design Idea of the Week
Olympic Mascots
The Beijing Winter Olympics had just ended, and its mascot, Bing Dwen Dwen, was hugely popular. People reportedly waited in line for five hours outside the store to buy one. Olympic mascots have always fascinated me because they represent the host city's culture and fuel interest in these intense and extravagant competitions. Enjoy this timeline of the last few Olympic Mascots. You can find more here.
Color Inspiration of the Week
Painted Pastel
Pale Gray #D0D5D9 | Soft Grass #789569 | Soft Ice #C99697 | Faded Amethyst #C0D6D4
Jargon Buster
Ascender
The part of a lowercase letter that goes above baseline.
Want more? check out the jargon buster glossary page.
Creative Prompt
Create something with Courgette!
Thank you
…for reading and hanging out here this week! Courgette is available here.
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