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Holiday Christmas + Godthem
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Interlocking curly-ligature all-caps holiday display (NOT a Roman serif!)
Holiday Christmas
Holiday Christmas is an exuberant all-caps interlocking display sans (zero classical serifs!) curling 'H', 'C', and 'R' loops around neighbor letters!
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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 Holiday Christmas.
Holiday Christmas is an all-caps interlocking display whose bold organic capitals curl loops from the H, C and R around their neighbours and carry four-point stars inside the O, so a word reads as a hand-drawn festive panel rather than a Roman serif. The interlock is structural, which fixes the tracking, and the stars are cut counters that need size to stay open. It needs roughly 30 mm for the ligatures to read, and it is best in cranberry on cream or in one pale ink on a deep green ground.
Curly-interlocking · All-caps-festive · Sparkle-cut
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Holiday Christmas with grounded secondary typography.
Structured Secondary Voice
Holiday Christmas + Marquis - Elegant Modern Serif
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 Holiday Christmas’s stroke geometry.
Holiday card, window sign and gift-wrap band
Interlocking curls read as a hand-drawn festive panel, which is what a shop and a family card both want. The fixed tracking makes a long greeting behave as one plate, and the star counters give the O detail without an ornament.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Card 120 x 170 mm, greeting 24 mm with 8 mm curl clearance, message 8/12 pt, 14 mm margins. Sign 600 x 400 mm, word 120 mm, 40 mm margins. Wrap band 600 x 80 mm, word 30 mm, 20 mm margins.
Pre-production check
Curled loops extend past the cap line and get trimmed when the card is guillotined from a larger sheet. Keep 8 mm of clear card above and below the word, and check one cut card before the batch.
Bakery box, seasonal label and café board
Interlocking festive caps read as a bakery's own Christmas panel, which is what a shop prints on a box and a board. The cranberry on cream palette needs one ink, and the star counters give the box detail without a second artwork.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Box 200 x 150 x 80 mm, word 44 mm on the lid, 25 mm margins. Label 70 x 95 mm, word 16 mm, 5 mm top arc and 4 mm die margin. Board 900 x 600 mm, header 80 mm, rows 22 mm on a 32 mm pitch.
Pre-production check
A 16 mm label name interlocked with a neighbour closes the star counter and the O becomes a solid block. Keep the label at 20 mm or drop the stars at small sizes, and check one applied label.
Post-holiday thank-you card, host tag and keepsake print
A warm interlocked panel reads as a seasonal thank-you rather than a greeting, which is what January post needs. The fixed tracking holds a long phrase as one carved line, and the cream and cranberry palette suits a quiet note.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Card 120 x 170 mm, heading 22 mm with 8 mm curl clearance, message 8/12 pt, 14 mm margins. Tag 50 x 90 mm, word 10 mm with a 5 mm hole and 6 mm clear card. Print 210 x 297 mm, heading 50 mm, 30 mm margins.
Pre-production check
A 10 mm tag word cannot hold a curl plus a punch and the loop is cut by the hole. Use the plain caps on small tags, and check one strung tag before the batch.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Display · Interlocking curly-ligature all-caps holiday display (NOT a Roman serif!)
- Foundry / creator
- Sakti Avellin
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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