Shalimar

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

Building a website? Click "Copy Font Code" to copy a short snippet, then paste it into your website's HTML (usually inside the <head> section) to use this font on your site.

Shalimar is a flowing script font with thin, elegant strokes and a strong calligraphic influence. It has a light weight that gives it an airy, refined quality, and its letterforms lean slightly to the right with natural ink-like variation. The overall feel is graceful without being overly ornate, making it feel sophisticated rather than decorative for the sake of it. It reads well at large display sizes but loses legibility quickly at smaller scales, so it works best when used intentionally and sparingly.

Shalimar fits well in wedding stationery and event branding where a handwritten, personal touch is needed without going too casual. It works in luxury product packaging or beauty brand identities where the thin strokes suggest elegance and care. It also suits editorial design, specifically magazine covers or pull quotes in lifestyle publications, where a single headline needs visual softness to contrast against clean, structured body copy.

Best suited for: Consider Shalimar for wedding invitations, luxury packaging, editorial headlines, and lifestyle magazine covers where refined calligraphic elegance enhances visual impact at display scales.

Design considerations: As a single-weight handwriting script, Shalimar demands generous sizing and selective use to maintain its sophisticated readability and ink-like character. Its rightward lean and thin strokes create an intentionally delicate presence that benefits from substantial whitespace and deliberate placement rather than dense application.

Pairing guidance: Pair Shalimar's flowing elegance with structured serif or sans-serif typefaces to balance its calligraphic refinement. Cormorant Garamond can echo its graceful proportions in body text, Lato offers clean geometric contrast for supporting information, and DM Serif Display provides complementary serif weight for secondary headlines while maintaining visual cohesion.

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Which languages does Shalimar support?

Shalimar includes 3 character sets:

• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
• Vietnamese: Vietnamese, including its stacked tone marks

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Shalimar commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Shalimar is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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