The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Monsieur La Doulaise
A free alternative to Edwardian Script.
About Monsieur La Doulaise
Monsieur La Doulaise is Alejandro Paul's 2011 formal pen script, a slender, high-contrast hand built on ultra-fine hairlines. Elaborate curling capitals and dramatic swashes give it the look of old-world engraving, rendered with unusual precision for a free face.
Those hairlines set the terms of use: reserve it for large display sizes where the thin strokes hold. At that scale it reproduces Kuenstler Script's engraved steel-pen exactness and captures the delicate character of Edwardian Script closely. It is lighter in color than Vivaldi but every bit as ornamental, and against Zapfino it swaps chaos for old-world elegance while keeping the ornamental spirit intact. Distributed through Google Fonts, it is the right choice for invitations, certificates, and packaging lockups where refinement matters more than robustness — and the wrong one anywhere the type has to work small.
- Designer
- Alejandro Paul
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 4 paid font pages
Monsieur La Doulaise is also a free alternative to…
- Edwardian Script → Ultra-fine hairlines and dramatic swashed capitals capture Edwardian Script's delicate steel-pen character; best at large display sizes.
- Kuenstler Script → Fine, even hairlines and controlled swashes reproduce Kuenstler Script's engraved steel-pen precision; reserve it for large sizes where the thin strokes hold up.
- Vivaldi → Formal pen script with elaborate, curling capitals and a refined old-world air — lighter in color than Vivaldi but equally ornamental.
- Zapfino → A slender formal pen script with dramatic swashed capitals — it trades Zapfino's chaos for old-world elegance while keeping the ornamental spirit.
Display + body that work together
A grammar of empty space
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.
Display · Body Monsieur La Doulaise + Lora
Quiet type that does the work
Body type does the heavy lifting. Get it right and the reader never thinks about it; get it wrong and they feel it before they can name what is off.
Display · Body Fraunces + Monsieur La Doulaise