Mansalva

Handwriting · by Carolina Short · 1 style

Download

Mansalva.zip · 352 KB · 2 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 only
Italics
None
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended), Greek, Vietnamese
Best for
  • Handwritten accents
  • Greek text
  • Vietnamese text
Consider alternatives for
  • Small text sizes
Characteristics
  • Handwritten
  • Small x-height
  • Alternate letterforms
  • Case-sensitive forms

Styles

32px

  1. Mansalva Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. Mansalva Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

Pairs well with

  • Body

    Alegreya Sans

    Handwritten annotations beside a humanist text sans: the script reads as a comment on the page rather than part of it, and both cover Greek and Vietnamese, so notes can follow the text into either.

BPOZZ Design Note

The upstream warns that its October 2022 vertical-metrics update made line spacing visibly larger on Mac. Annotations placed in fixed-height boxes should get an explicit line-height rather than line-height: normal.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

About Mansalva

About
A handwriting script by Carolina Short for notes and informal passages, with two alternates for every letter and number.
Designer
Carolina Short
Version
2.112
Category
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

Copyright 2019 The Mansalva Project Authors (https://github.com/carolinashort/mansalva)

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 29 Aug 2019.

Upstream project: github.com/carolinashort/mansalva.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Greek, Latin, Latin Extended, Vietnamese