Écrou by Guillaume Santial — Display Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Écrou Font

Écrou, designed by Guillaume Santial, is a display typeface that commands visual attention through confident, authoritative letterforms engineered for maximum impact. With 280 glyphs and support for 248+ Latin-based languages, this font brings substantial typographic flexibility and global reach to multilingual design projects of virtually any scope or sector. The Regular weight delivers a singular, striking voice that performs with consistent clarity and presence across diverse layout formats and display scales.

Display typefaces like Écrou thrive in contexts where immediate visual impact and strong presence matter most to your creative work. You'll find natural applications in podcast cover artwork and series branding, event poster designs, social media campaign graphics and animations, branding headline treatments, book cover designs, and custom merchandise labels that need to capture viewer attention instantly. The broad character set and comprehensive language support make it equally effective for creative projects reaching diverse audiences and communities across different geographic regions and cultural markets.

Écrou is free for both personal and commercial use, available directly for download without any restrictions. This typeface works best for projects that call for a confident, display-weight typographic statement, reaching their intended audiences primarily at larger sizes where bold letterforms command full visual presence.

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Eye-catching, Bold, Display
Use Case
Headlines, Logos
Ideal For
posters, branding, and social media graphics
Pairs With
a readable sans or serif for body

Écrou Specifications

Font Familyécrou
StyleRegular
Full Nameécrou Regular
Version1.000
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count280 glyphs
PostScript Nameecrou-Regular
DesignerGuillaume Santial
FormatOTF (CFF)
File Size28.9 KB

OpenType Features

Écrou ships with 1 OpenType feature you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Standard ligatures

Languages Supported

Écrou supports 248 languages.

How to Install Écrou Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Écrou font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Écrou is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Écrou Font?

Écrou Font is a display font that shines as a display or heading face. Pair it with a clean sans-serif or serif font for body text — the contrast creates a clear hierarchy while the two styles stay balanced and easy to read.

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Écrou Font

by Guillaume Santial

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated October 2026

License: Free for commercial use
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