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Christmas Wishes + Saltriver Grotesk
Lets Christmas Wishes own the focal silhouette while handling secondary copy, sizing and subheads cleanly.
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Ornate Christmas serif capitals with curled stems and swash terminals
Christmas Wishes
Christmas Wishes is an ornate serif capital alphabet in which the stems curl into spirals and the terminals finish in swashes, so a two-word greeting reads as engraved seasonal stationery.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Sturdy stroke walls and open counters weed cleanly on adhesive vinyl, HTV apparel film, and cut cardstock.
Plotter & output verdictEasy-Weed Vinyl & Print Ready
Recommended minimum scale0.75 in+ cap height
Character set & structureUppercase, Lowercase & Numerals
OpenType & PUA accessStandard Latin, Figures & Punctuation
Best surfaces & mediaSeasonal Apparel · Mug Wraps · Holiday Gift Tags
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Christmas Wishes.
The C rolls its terminals into tight curls, the H sets two stems with a curled bar, the R turns a swash leg, the W splays four diagonals with curled feet, the S holds a spiral spine and the T ends its arm in a hook, all at a moderate contrast with fine serifs and drawn-in spirals. The curls are the character: they sit outside the letter shapes, so the face needs a generous margin and cannot be tracked tight without the spirals colliding. It works from 24 pt upward in one colour, and the thin spirals want a smooth card. The pine branches, the bauble, the small stars and the hype lines above and below are presentation; the red and green display words are the face.
Ornate · Festive · Swash
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Christmas Wishes with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Christmas Wishes + Stanza
Grounds bold display lettering with classic typographic authority on posters, badges and apparel.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Christmas Wishes’s stroke geometry.
Greeting card for a family list
The engraved curls give a printed card the look of a foil-blocked greeting, and the moderate contrast holds the spirals at 26 pt.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 120 by 170 mm card: set the greeting at 26 pt on two lines, allow 1.5 line spacing so the curls of the first line clear the ascenders below, and keep a 15 mm margin for the swash tails.
Pre-production check
Spirals on two stacked lines collide at normal leading; check the printed card and open the spacing before reducing the size.
Menu for a December wedding
The seasonal curl suits a December reception, and the engraved capitals keep a course heading legible at 18 pt across a long table.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 105 by 210 mm menu: set the course headings at 18 pt in one colour, set the dishes in a 10 pt serif beneath, and keep 12 mm between courses so the swashes do not touch the rules.
Pre-production check
Swash feet brushing a rule read as a printing fault; check the proof and drop the rules rather than cutting the curls.
Tag for a small gift-wrapping service
The swash capitals make a plain gift tag feel wrapped, and the moderate weight prints in one colour at 20 pt on a smooth card.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 45 by 90 mm tag: set the shop name at 20 pt in the upper third, punch a 4 mm hole 10 mm from the top, and keep the curling terminal of the first letter clear of the hole.
Pre-production check
A swash curling into a punched hole gets torn by the string; check the assembled tag and turn the word so the curl faces the lower edge.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Serif · Ornate Christmas serif capitals with curled stems and swash terminals
- Foundry / creator
- hl_studio
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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