Petit Formal Script
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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Lowercase
Numerals
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Package Manager
The recommended way to use fonts in modern web projects.
1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/petit-formal-script2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Petit Formal Script", 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
Formal Scripts are great typefaces to suggest elegance, quality, refinement and luxury. They are used a lot in print publishing, but you don't see many formal scripts used on the web. Isn't it? Mostly because their tiny hairlines breaks and disappear when used at small sizes on the screen.
Also, they usually have long ascenders and descenders, and the lowercase letters look too small when compared to most sans or serif fonts. More over, they are usually quite condensed, making them even more difficult to read.
That's why we designed a script type specifically tailored for web use, that can survive being set even as small as 13px.
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Subsets
Install
pnpm add @fontsource/petit-formal-scriptDesigned by
Impallari Type
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License
OFL-1.1