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Richmond Grovelyn + Sailors
Creates crisp high-hierarchy contrast beneath Richmond Grovelyn headlines across menus, websites and labels.
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Elegant serif duo in roman and italic
Richmond Grovelyn
Richmond Grovelyn is an elegant serif duo in cream over a warm portrait: a wide high-contrast roman in capitals for the first word and a flowing italic in lowercase for the second, sold together with a caption naming the pair.
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Cutting, print & workflow scorecard.
Crisp hairline serifs shine on stationery, foil stamping, and packaging; add slight offset for small decals.
Plotter & output verdictPrint, Hot Foil & Large Signage
Recommended minimum scalePrint 10 pt+ · Vinyl 1.5 in+
Character set & structureMatched Font Duo
OpenType & PUA accessLigatures
Best surfaces & mediaWedding Suites · Foil Envelopes · Boutique Logos
Compatible design toolsIllustrator · Affinity · Canva Pro · Cricut & Silhouette
Visual anatomy & craft review
Letterform structure
of Richmond Grovelyn.
Two words are stacked and the pair is a roman and its italic: RICHMOND is set in capitals with a strong contrast, fine flat serifs, a wide M and a thin crossbar on the A, while grovelyn is set in the italic at a slightly smaller size, with a single-storey a, a rounded e, tall loops on the l and the y and a tail that sweeps out of the final n. Because both share the same skeleton and the same weight, the pair reads as one voice in two tones, which is what makes a roman and an italic useful on a cover or a label. The italic is noticeably lighter in colour, so the second line does not compete with the first. A caption beneath names the pair and its qualities, and the ground is a warm portrait in soft beige. Richmond Grovelyn is a pair for luxury packaging, editorial titles, invitations and branding, and it needs a large size and a quiet image behind it.
Elegant, contrasted, luxury
Two-font hierarchy recipes
Suggested font
pairings.
Tested contrast partners — pairing Richmond Grovelyn with grounded secondary typography.
Expressive Accent Script
Richmond Grovelyn + Outside
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 Richmond Grovelyn’s stroke geometry.
Names on a formal invitation
A roman and its italic let a card carry two lines of names in one voice, and the italic handles the second name without a second family.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 148 by 210 mm card: set the first name at 28 pt in the roman, set the second at 26 pt in the italic with 20 mm of clear ground, and hold 16 mm of margin on all four sides.
Pre-production check
Mixing the two styles at close sizes can look accidental; keep a clear size gap and proof one card.
Label for a fragrance house
The pair gives a bottle a brand and a product line in one family, and the fine serifs take a light foil on a small die far better than a heavy face.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 45 by 75 mm bottle label: set the brand at 13 pt in the roman, set the variant at 11 pt in the italic with 5 mm of clear ground, and hold 3.5 mm of margin on all four sides.
Pre-production check
Hairlines can bridge under foil and close into a solid stroke; order one foil proof on the real stock before the order.
Cover for a fashion title
A contrasted roman over an italic gives a cover a hierarchy without a second face, and the wide capitals fill a masthead line.
Hierarchy & layout recipe
Print a 230 by 300 mm cover: set the masthead at 110 pt in the roman, set the standfirst at 40 pt in the italic with 26 mm of clear ground, and hold 16 mm of margin at the top and sides.
Pre-production check
A fine italic over a photograph can lose its joins; proof one cover at the final size before the run.
Technical & licence verification
File & listing specifications.
File & glyph specifications
- Style classification
- Duo · Elegant serif duo in roman and italic
- Foundry / creator
- Moontiontype
- Ligatures
- Ligatures mentioned in designer listing
- Language support
- Multilingual character support stated by creator
- File formats mentioned
- OTF, TTF
Confirm included OTF/TTF/WOFF formats, full glyph tables and licence coverage on the live store page before batch production.
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