Marjorie

Marjorie is a geometric display typeface with Art Deco bones — high-waisted proportions, classical Roman skeletons, and clean monoline strokes. Drawn for headlines, posters, logotypes, and packaging, where a single confident voice carries the layout.

Free and open source under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Specimen

One weight — Regular — with 460 glyphs covering:

• Uppercase and lowercase Latin (A–Z, a–z)
• Figures 0–9 and basic punctuation
• Accented Latin characters for Western European languages

Built for display sizes. It sings as a headline and on a poster; for long passages of body text, reach for something else.

Install

Desktop — download a font from fonts/ (or a tagged release) and double-click to install:

• Marjorie-Regular.otf — OpenType, recommended for desktop
• Marjorie-Regular.ttf — TrueType, for broad compatibility

Web — use the WOFF2 with an @font-face rule:

@font-face {
  font-family: "Marjorie";
  src: url("Marjorie-Regular.woff2") format("woff2"),
       url("Marjorie-Regular.woff") format("woff");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

Building from source

The source of truth is sources/Marjorie.glyphs, drawn in Glyphs.

• In Glyphs: open the source and File → Export to OTF / TTF / Web (WOFF2).

• Command line (fontmake):

  pip install fontmake
  fontmake -g sources/Marjorie.glyphs -o otf ttf

License

Marjorie is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 — see OFL.txt. You can use it, study it, modify it, and bundle it (including in commercial work) freely. You can't sell the font by itself, and any derivative must be released under the OFL with a different primary font name — "Marjorie" is a Reserved Font Name.

See FONTLOG.txt for version history.

Author

Designed by David Tucker — type design and creative technology. tvcker.com · @inkxel