Menil

Name: Menil
Author: Louna Bourdon

Menil offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Louna Bourdon80% Accessible

Characters456

Glyphs547

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Best Ways to Use Menil

Best Font Pairings for Menil

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Menil, including combinations with Russolo, Amiko and Maple.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Menil with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

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Menil Editorial Specimen

Menil in Editorial Context

Menil is a slab serif typeface by Louna Bourdon suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Louna Bourdon

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Menil demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Menil supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Louna Bourdon, Menil balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Menil Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Menil Specimen

Menil

Menil is a slab serif typeface by Louna Bourdon built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface

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Menil— slab serif typeface

MenilBy Louna Bourdon

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Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Menil Glyphs & Characters

Size48

Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

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Body Copy

Menil Body Typography

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Menil, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Menil demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Menil for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Menil small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

Element	Weight	Size	Line Height	Tracking	Preview
Body Text	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Menil delivers excellent readability for body copy
Italicized	Regular Italic	16px	24px	0.5px	Menil italic provides elegant emphasis
Bold	Bold	16px	24px	0.5px	Menil bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small Caps	Regular	16px	24px	0.5px	Menil typography specimen
Secondary Text	Medium	14px	20px	0.5px	Menil typography specimen

.your-class { font-family: 'Menil'; }

Quick Start

Using Menil in Your Design

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Menil:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Menil:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Menil';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Menil:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Menil in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Menil', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Menil', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'menil': ['Menil', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-menil">Your text here</p>

About

The Story of Menil

Louna Bourdon

Slab Serif

Open Source

Menil font is a condensed retro slab-serif by Louna Bourdon designed for space-efficient vintage display applications with period character. This narrow typeface delivers nostalgic presence in constrained proportions, suited for retro branding, vintage-inspired packaging, and editorial design requiring vertical emphasis with historical flavor. Menil excels in craft beverage labels, vintage event graphics, and publication design where condensed retro typography creates authentic period atmosphere. The narrow proportions enable dramatic headlines while retro details add nostalgic warmth. Designers seeking condensed slab-serifs with vintage character will appreciate Menil's efficient charm. Pairs effectively with wider sans-serifs for proportion contrast.

Menil was designed by Louna Bourdon. The typeface shows dedication to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Menil features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for wayfinding and signage systems.

Menil is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency across digital and print workflows, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Best Ways to Use Menil

Best Font Pairings for Menil

Test Menil Font Pairings Live

In Context

Menil Typography

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Character Set

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Menil Body Typography

Quick Start

HTML Link Tag

CSS @import

CSS @font-face

Implementation

Standard CSS

SCSS Variable

Tailwind CSS

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Internationalization

Western European

Nordic

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