Massenet by Chuck's Fonts — Decorative Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Massenet Font

Massenet is my revival, completely redrawn, of Old Style Grotesque Condensed which I found in Specimens of Printing Type (Miller & Richard, Edinburgh, c. 1920). The book appears to be in the public domain. Massenet is a sans serif font that sports a nice combination of thick and thin strokes. I expanded the single font to three weights, SemiBold, Bold and ExtraBold. I believe it will your designs best in posters, advertisements, “vintage modern” (what a great oxymoron!) and card design.
Massenet exemplifies a few of the reasons Grotesques received this moniker. See the unusual N glyph with its upper right rectangle; the rather truncated G; and the awkward S.
Massenet supports Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Catalan, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Jola-Fonyi, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Turkmen, Upper Sorbian, Vunjo, Welsh, Western Frisian, Wolof, Zulu.
Several dozen discretionary ligatures are available.
I named Massenet after the 19th century French composer of operas and splashy orchestral music, Jules Massenet (1842-1912).

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Bold, Distinctive, Fancy
Use Case
Headlines, Posters
Ideal For
logos, packaging, and standout titles
Pairs With
a neutral sans-serif

OpenType Features

Massenet ships with 2 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Standard ligatures

How to Install Massenet Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Massenet 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. 5Massenet is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Massenet Font?

Massenet Font is a decorative 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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