Miss Pineapple, Pittsburgh
Age and Occupation: 24, Graphic Designer
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 27, Student Affairs Administration
Engagement Date: August 4, 2007
Wedding Date: October, 2008
Blogging Since: April 14, 2008
Venue: The Rivers Club
About Me: Being a transplant from sunny south Florida I am learning to live with all four seasons while playing with our cat collective, line dancing, and doing a ton of DIY projects for our wedding (seriously, like a thousand)!
Fontastic!
May 21st, 2008 @ 9:26 am by Miss Pineapple
Way back in the day when I wrote about some early invitation concepts, a few readers asked about specific typefaces. So, in addition to answering their questions I thought it may be helpful to write about a few of my favorite typefaces for wedding invitations. The type style and face you or your designer chooses is going to depend on the look and style you are going for, so these are by no means the only typefaces that are appropriate - they are just a few that I think work well.
I’ve lumped them into three groups Sweet/Girly, Traditional and Offbeat. The names of the groups are a fairly arbitrary way to start to categorize them that I made up, so you might think a traditional one is offbeat. (You can click to enlarge the images and the names are fictional)The typefaces that I am calling Sweet and Girly I think would be great for a spring or summer wedding that is traditional and slightly modern.
Linoscript
Murray Hill
Wade Sans Light
Brighton Plain
Dorchester Script
Fling
Bickley Script
Here are the typefaces I am calling Traditional (and fancy):
Carpenter
Gravura
Mahogany Script Std
University
Academy Engraved
Artisan Roman
Bickham Script - Shown with some swash capitals and alternates
Bodoni
Cancellaresca Script
The next set I am calling Offbeat, but some are more modern or retro:
Avenida
Bernhard Fashion
Huxley
Parisian
Rubino Sans - Fill
What are your favorite wedding typefaces?
22 Responses to “Fontastic!”
love anything by hermann zapf =)
I am using BeauRivageOne, but LOVE the FeelScript font that a lot of the bees use. Too expensive for me though =P
I * heart* fonts 
I used Scriptina and Mrs Eaves, love both of them.
Scriptina you can get for free off of dafont.com but Mrs Eaves is one you have to purchase.
Love the Murray Hill font. Picking fonts was almost as hard as picking colors, I just love too many!
Scriptina!
Futura! Clean and beautiful. And free! =)
I’m having a hard time matching up fonts– I like Chopin Script, and I think we might pair it with perpetua? Any thoughts?
Zaner + Fling + Helvetica Neue Extended.
We used Parisian, as we had a vintage-y invite.
Madame Pineapple, how did you KNOW I was currently spending all of my time obsessing over fonts?? Feeding my addiction, bad girl!
I currently feel my heart throb for:
Feel Script
New Yorker and New Yorker Engraved
batik regular
Birkham Script Fancy
Adienne Kindbirg
and
Fontleroy
Burgues Script. It’s pretty pricey but so worth it if you are looking for a formal, calligraphy style font. I’m pretty sure I drool every time I use it.
i recently designed the wedding stationary for my friend’s wedding. she had her wedding at the pasadena museum of california art, so it lent itself to a very modern theme.
i used “Walkway Bold” for all of her stationary. i wish i could load a sample of it here. but the font is free on: http://www.dafonts.com
I found a free font that I love for accenting my more casual garden party/outdoor invitation:
MA Simple Pleasure
Bickley, Wade Sans, & Carpenter
I used Honey Script which I found on dafont.com for our envelopes. I love it!
I used Bernhardt Modern for the details of the wedding and Zapfino for our names and titles.
I’m digging Murray Hill and Avenida, though. Nice fonts. Another favorite is Brochure, oddly enough. I think it’s just bold enough for highlighting text and is something a little different.
I wonder if anyone’s ever done a comicsans invitation. heh.
I love Scriptina and was thinking of using it to address our envelopes, but was worried the Post Office would have a hard time reading/delivering it. Has anyone had any experience with this? Thank you!
I used “fling” and “century gothic” on my invites for summer wedding. Looks really great.
I used Feel Script and Cooperplate Gothic Light on my invitations. I can’t wait to use Feel Script for our programs, menus, and various signs for the wedding!
@lionsaoi: haha, I sure hope not! My sister is a strong advocate for http://www.bancomicsans.com.
Bernhard Fashion all the way. I remember seeing it on my parent’s invitations, my birth announcement, my aunt’s invitations… I’ve just always loved that font.
I used your first one (also called French Script) but love Cezanne.
I used Carpenter Script + Papyrus fonts for my invitations and LOVE them!!!!
