Editorial Serif Anchor
August + Marquis - Elegant Modern Serif
Anchors August's fluid strokes with crisp Roman proportions on wedding suites, headers and packaging.
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Tall narrow looped script
August
August is drawn tall and narrow with even monoline strokes, so every letter becomes a loop and the word stacks up as a column of verticals rather than a horizontal band.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Weld or Unite overlapping script joins into one continuous vector path before sending to the blade.
Plotter & output verdictWeld Joins Before Cutting
Recommended minimum scale1.10 in+ x-height on vinyl
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of August.
The cover sets the whole word at once and the effect is a picket of narrow loops: the a and u are closed ovals with a short entry, the g drops a large descender that loops back up through the line below, and the t is the only letter with a cross, drawn short and set low. Connections sit close to the baseline, which keeps the loops from crossing each other, and the x-height is nearly as tall as the ascenders, so the word has an even height along its whole length. Weight is monoline and consistent, with no hairline and no swelling, which is why the shape holds when it is scaled down. The faint leaf pattern behind is a ground texture, and the tracked caption beneath belongs to a separate label face.
Tall · Looped · Even
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing August with grounded secondary typography.
Clean Subline & Body Sans
August + Monure
Keeps small-scale dates, URLs, nutrition facts and care instructions crisp and legible below script titles.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to August’s stroke geometry.
Header for a narrow dinner menu
Tall narrow loops fit a long word into the slim column of a folded menu, which is the format where a wide script has to either shrink or break across two lines.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the header at 26 pt at the head of a 90 mm column, keep the courses in a light serif at 9 pt with 3 mm of leading, and let the g descender fall into the gap before the first course.
Pre-production check
Check the descender against the first course line: in a narrow column there is less room to pull the text down than the specimen implies.
Logo lockup for a guest house
Even monoline loops hold up as a small mark on a key tag or a door plaque, and the tall proportions give the name a vertical presence that suits a narrow signage plate.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Set the mark at 20 mm wide on a 40 by 80 mm plaque, keep the room number in a plain sans beneath it at 8 mm, and leave 6 mm of clear space around the loops so the mark is never confused with the frame.
Pre-production check
Engraving thins the stroke where the cutter turns; check the loops at actual size on the plaque material before the plate is cut.
Signage for a garden market stall
Tall loops read as something grown rather than drawn, and the even weight survives a hand-painted stall board where a high-contrast script would break into thin and thick lines.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Paint the stall name at 120 mm cap height across a 900 mm board, keep the prices in a plain hand at 40 mm on a separate lower board, and hold 60 mm clear at each end so the outer loops stay whole.
Pre-production check
Outdoor paint and a brush thicken every stroke, so test the tightest loop on an offcut and also check it at the distance people will actually stand.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Script · Tall narrow looped script
- Foundry / creator
- Abodaniel
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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