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Hermione Modern Serif + Cenura
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Hermione Modern Serif headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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High-contrast capitals with long crossing strokes and a sweeping central tail
Hermione Modern Serif
Hermione is a modern elegant serif in caps with very fine hairlines, tall proportions and a set of display ligatures, shown over an editorial portrait and set with a slight arch.
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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 accessPUA Encoded · Stylistic Alternates · Ligatures
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsCricut Design Space · Silhouette Studio · Canva Pro · Illustrator
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Hermione Modern Serif.
HERMIONE spans the card in white over a close portrait in warm light, and the letters are tall and narrow with hairlines at the joins and sharp wedge serifs; the I and the O are drawn to touch, and the custom ligatures give the word a rhythm that a standard setting would not have. The baseline lifts slightly across the centre, which is a display treatment rather than a feature of the font, and a caption at the foot names the family and credits the foundry. The sample is a fashion layout: type over a photograph, wide spacing in small caps, one ornament. What it tells a buyer is that the face is for titles and mastheads at a large size, and that the hairlines need a good press or a screen, never a cheap photocopy.
High-contrast capitals with long crossing strokes and a sweeping central tail
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Hermione Modern Serif with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Hermione Modern Serif + High Rise
Adds a warm human signature touch for 1-to-3-word callouts without competing against structured serif capitals.
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Project & layout
blueprints.
Concrete hierarchy, scale and production guidance tailored to Hermione Modern Serif’s stroke geometry.
Masthead for a culture quarterly
The tall caps with their ligatures give a masthead a mark that survives being set in one word, and the thin joins read as editorial rather than decorative.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 230 by 300 mm cover: set the masthead at 140 pt on one row, keep 30 mm of clear ground beneath before the cover lines at 12 pt, and hold 18 mm from the last letter to the trim.
Pre-production check
Hairline joins break at large sizes on newsprint; print one cover on the intended paper and check the O before the run.
Invitation header for a black-tie wedding
The face is formal without being traditional, which is what a couple planning a modern ceremony usually want, and the ligatures give a short surname presence.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 148 by 210 mm invitation: set the names at 28 pt on one row, keep 20 mm of clear ground beneath before the venue at 9.5 pt, and hold 16 mm of margin from the widest letter to the card edge.
Pre-production check
Thin serifs break in foil; print one invitation in the intended process and check the joins before the suite.
Wordmark for a fine-jewellery house
The fine joins suggest metal rather than ink, which suits a product built on thin forms, and one wordmark carries a shop window without a symbol.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 90 by 55 mm card: set the wordmark at 16 pt on one row, keep 6 mm of clear ground beneath before the contact block at 6 pt, and hold 5 mm from the wordmark to the card edge.
Pre-production check
At card size the hairlines grey out; print one card at the final size and check the W before the order.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Serif · High-contrast capitals with long crossing strokes and a sweeping central tail
- Foundry / creator
- Pentagonistudio
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded — swashes & alternates open in Character Map (Windows) and Font Book (Mac)
- Glyph encoding
- PUA encoded for character-map access
- Ligatures
- Ligatures mentioned in designer listing
- Alternates & swashes
- Stylistic alternates or swashes mentioned
Creator topic tags (50)
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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