Green Fairy | Display Font Family

Stylized white text “GREEN FAIRY” on a blue-purple background with swirls and sparkles.
Stylized teal letter E with decorative flourishes beside a small icon and labels
Purple decorative “HOLA!” text with star accents on a blue background.
Decorative line-art spelling “I ♥ Y” with flowers and leaves on a light background
Decorative white “SWEET HOME” text on a dark blue background.
Stylized orange ampersand with yellow and white accents on a light gray background

Green Fairy Font Family

Green Fairy is a unicase chromatic font family highly ornamented for display purposes. Green Fairy’s characters have been specifically designed to accommodate its loops and ornaments following a modern typeface structure.


Green Fairy has four chromatic weights:


1. Green Fairy Outline
2. Green Fairy Dots
3. Green Fairy Stencil
4. Green Fairy Full


The outline weight has been created as the base for the other weights. You can combine these weights as well as add colours to obtain multiple effects and type styles.


Green Fairy has also three combined weights (combos) to simplify your work flow, for these occasions when you only want to use one single colour in your font:


5. Green Fairy Dots Combo
6. Green Fairy Stencil Combo
7. Green Fairy Full Combo

FONT SPECIFICATIONS

Version: 2.0
Chromatic weights: 7
Glyph set: 443
Languages supported: 207
Script sets: Latin Plus diacritics: 95%

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Credits

Type designer: Maria Montes
Latin type mentor: Josema Urós
Latin type mentor: Jamie Clarke
Latin type mentor: Troy Leinster
Framed colorful wall art above two potted plants on a white table against a white wall
Decorative purple floral graphic with the words “In the silence” and a small inspirational quote.

Green Fairy Font Background

The origin of this typeface is the lettering I designed in October 2015 as part of my illustrated cocktail artwork called “Absinthe. La Fée Verte (The Green Fairy)”. Originally, this lettering only featured eight letters “AB·SINTHE” vector drawn in Illustrator.


Right after creating the full-colour artwork, I designed a fountain-letterpress print version of it, in collaboration with Ladies of Letters, A.K.A. Carla Hackett and Amy Constable from Saint Gertrude Fine Printing.

Four pastel floral motivational quote prints arranged in a row on a white background

Green Fairy TYPE DESIGN origins

At the beginning of 2016 —and thanks to the project @36daysoftype— I found the motivation, and most importantly the deadline, to draw the rest of the twenty-six letters of the uppercase alphabet using Adobe Illustrator.

Green Fairy Font A with decorative swirls on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Decorative letter B in black outline with dotted and striped fill.
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black-and-white letter C with decorative curved lines
Green Fairy Font. Black line drawing of a stylized letter D with a small inner knot-like loop on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black letter E with dotted left stem on a light gray background
Green Fairy Font. Decorative black serif letter H with ornate flourishes on a light background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black outline letter G on a light gray background
Green Fairy Font. Decorative black serif H with dotted fill on a white background, linked by a small floral knot in the center
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black capital letter I with white outline and decorative curled serifs
Green Fairy Font. Minimal black line drawing of a stylized letter J with decorative loops on a light gray background
Green Fairy Font. Decorative black-and-white calligraphic capital K with dotted fill and flourished serifs
Green Fairy Font. Black decorative monogram letters L and J intertwined on a light background
Green Fairy Font. Decorative black monogram letters N and M intertwined on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized letter N with dotted diagonal stripe and mirrored decorative serifs in black and white.
Green Fairy Font. Black-and-white oval sports ball logo with vertical white panels and side laces
Green Fairy Font. Decorative monogram letter P in thin black line art on a light gray background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized dotted balloon or mask with a long ribbon-like tail, outlined in black and white.
Green Fairy Font. Black-and-white decorative capital R with ornate serif details and a ribbon-like flourish
Green Fairy Font. Thin black line art letter “S” with decorative curls on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black-and-white monogram logo with an ornate T-like letter design and linked center shapes
Green Fairy Font. Decorative black-and-white stylized letter U with ornate serif flourishes
Green Fairy Font. Abstract black line drawing of a decorative letter V on a light gray background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black-and-white monogram logo with an ornate X-like letter design and linked center shapes. Three stylized black-outlined sail-like shapes with dotted shading, arranged side by side on white.
Stylized black-and-white monogram logo with an ornate X-like letter design and linked center shapes
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black-and-white monogram logo with an ornate X-like letter design and linked center shapes. Stylized black line-art letter Y with ornate loops on a light background
Green Fairy Font. Stylized black-and-white monogram logo with an ornate X-like letter design and linked center shapes. Decorative black script letter Z with dotted fill on a light background

nine-month full time type design process

I started 2017 having all my calligraphy courses sold out, which facilitated financial stability and the flexibility to pause client work and to devote myself to Green Fairy for a few months.


I purchased the font software Glyphs and I started to re-draw all twenty-six letters of the uppercase alphabet again, followed by the numbers, currency symbols, diacritics, punctuation marks as well as spacing and kerning.


Green Fairy is the result of an intense nine-month-full-time professional investment and I couldn’t be happier with this release!



Green Fairy Font. Seven labeled test tubes with blue, teal, and white liquid levels and dots on a white background.
Green Fairy Font. Repeated “GREEN FAIRY” text in blue, green, and gray on a white background

Green Fairy Packaging Concepts

Below you'll see how Green Fairy interacts in the packaging space, labelling white, red, rose wines, sparkling water, liquors and extra virgin olive oil, cheers!

Green Fairy Font. Three decorative wine bottles in white, black, and coral on a white background.
Green Fairy Font. White cylindrical bottle with black floral design and wooden cap on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Four colorful patterned bottles with black labels on a white background
Green Fairy Font. Clear glass bottle of golden liquid with a cork stopper and cream label on a white background

Green Fairy FONT IN USE

Below you'll see examples of Green Fairy in use in print and digital environments.

Green Fairy Font. Open book showing a stylized number 5 and the words “DECEMBER” and “WEDNESDAY.”
Green Fairy Font. Maria Montes in sunglasses and black T-shirt standing before a colorful graffiti wall and smiling.
Green Fairy Font. Close-up of a gold book cover with embossed white text and multicolored page edges
Green Fairy Font. Close-up of a sketchbook page with stylized letters, including “N” and “O,” and small date-like numbers at top left.
Green Fairy Font. Notebook page with black-and-white doodles and a pen resting along the edge
Green Fairy Font. Black-and-white doodle of overlapping patterned circles on paper, with a small red sketch nearby.
Green Fairy Font. Open notebook with bold black and white number typography on a desk, hand pointing at chalk-style numbers
Green Fairy Font. White line drawing of a triangular symbol over dark mushrooms and pine needles
Green Fairy Font. Orange and white ribbon-shaped ampersand with brown outline on a light background