Gabriola is a deceptively simple-looking handwriting typeface in one style with many decorative variations. It can add elegance and grace to titles, headlines, and subheads, as well as short passages of text where a controlled exuberance might be appropriate. Gabriola appears small, so it is best used at large sizes. Its flourishes can take up more vertical or horizontal space than expected, so it’s best to give Gabriola plenty of room on the page.
Type designer John Hudson was inspired by an idea from music: that the same melody can be played in multiple modes, each with its own expressive characteristics. Gabriola’s eight OpenType stylistic sets and “contextual alternates” (different forms for the same letter depending on what’s around it) give it great flexibility for expressive styling of any text.
Gabriola has only one weight and, since it is already a cursive typeface, no italic style.
As with everything from Adobe Fonts, you can use these fonts for:
Design Projects
Create images or vector artwork, including logos
Website Publishing
Create a Web Project to add any font from our service to your website
PDFs
Embed fonts in PDFs for viewing and printing
Video and Broadcast
Use fonts to create in-house or commercial video content
How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
Fonts in the Adobe Fonts library include support for many different languages, OpenType features, and typographic styles.