Grand Hotel
handwriting · Designed by Astigmatic
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Grand Hotel is a connected script font with an Art Deco sensibility, drawing on the lettering styles popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Its letterforms are upright rather than heavily slanted, with consistent stroke weight and smooth joins between characters that give it a polished, controlled look. It reads as elegant without being overly formal, and carries a sense of vintage glamour that feels deliberate rather than nostalgic. The x-height is generous enough to maintain legibility at moderate sizes, though like most display scripts it loses clarity at small sizes or in long blocks of text.
Grand Hotel works well for boutique branding in industries like hospitality, beauty, and food and beverage, where a touch of sophistication is expected without the stiffness of serif typefaces. It suits event-related design such as wedding invitation suites, gala announcements, or restaurant menus where the headline needs personality. In editorial contexts, it functions effectively as a pull-quote or section-header typeface in lifestyle magazines or lookbooks, adding a recognizable stylistic anchor without overwhelming the surrounding content.
Best suited for: Consider Grand Hotel for luxury brand identities, event invitations, upscale menu design, and editorial headlines where vintage elegance enhances rather than dominates the visual hierarchy.
Design considerations: As a connected display script with a single regular weight, Grand Hotel performs optimally at larger sizes and shorter text runs rather than body copy or dense layouts. The consistent stroke weight and Art Deco proportions maintain visual clarity in headlines and feature text while supporting the polished aesthetic of premium applications.
Pairing guidance: Pair Grand Hotel with Cormorant Garamond to anchor sophisticated layouts with a complementary serif voice, use Lato as a neutral sans-serif counterpoint for supporting text and interface elements, or combine it with Pinyon Script when a secondary handwriting style can add layered elegance to invitations or decorative contexts.
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Grand Hotel at a glance
Astigmatic
SIL Open Font License 1.1
November 2012
September 2025
1 (1 weight)
Handwriting · Display
2
Google Fonts
Grand Hotel styles
| Weight | Name | Upright |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Regular | Aa Bb Gg 123 |
Grand Hotel character map
Which languages does Grand Hotel support?
Grand Hotel includes 2 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
It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.
Can I use Grand Hotel commercially?
Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Grand Hotel 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.