Grand Hotel
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/grand-hotel 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Grand Hotel", cursive;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
Grand Hotel finds its inspiration from the title screen of the 1937 film "Cafe Metropole" starring Tyrone Power. This condensed upright connecting script has a classic vibe to it.
It has a wonderful weight to it that feels subtly tied to Holiday and Bakery themed designs, even though it can work outside that genre.
Designed by Brian J. Bonislawsky and Jim Lyles for Astigmatic (AOETI). To contribute to the project contact Brian J. Bonislawsky.
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/grand-hotel Designed by
Astigmatic
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License
OFL-1.1