Marjolaine font — by CarmineType, $29 desktop license. Every figure below comes from the seller’s own listing.
Quick facts (verified from the Creative Market listing)
| Designer / Foundry | CarmineType |
| Price | $29 desktop license (also Webfont/E-pub/App tiers) |
| Style | Display serif — elegant, luxury, branding |
| Ligatures / alternates | 55+ |
| Language coverage | Western, Central and Eastern European |
| Formats | OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2 |
Why it stands out
CarmineType built Marjolaine to sit in an unusual middle ground — part delicate slab serif, part typewriter-inspired letterforms — rather than committing fully to either. That combination is what the 55+ ligatures and alternates are built around: they let the slab weight and the typewriter character show up in different places in a single word instead of reading as one flat texture.
The European language coverage is broad enough (Western, Central, Eastern) that it holds up for multi-market branding work without needing a second family for accented text.
Popular on Creative Market as of 15/8/2026. Pricing and specs pulled directly from the product listing — verify current price/license before purchase, as Creative Market pricing can change.
Is there a free alternative to Marjolaine?
Yes for the serif structure, no for the typewriter character. Marjolaine sits between a delicate slab and a typewriter-inspired face with 55+ ligatures. The free serifs below match its elegance without that mechanical edge.
| Free font | What it matches | What you give up |
|---|---|---|
| Playfair Display | High-contrast transitional display serif, variable weight 400–900, 1,103 glyphs | No slab or typewriter feel — Playfair is refined, not mechanical |
| Lora | Calligraphic text serif with brushed curves, variable 400–700 | Built for body text, so it lacks display-scale drama |
Every font in that table is released under the SIL Open Font License, is free for commercial use including client work, and can be downloaded from this site with its licence file included. The figures come from the font binaries, not from a listing.
When the paid font is worth it. Buy Marjolaine when the typewriter-slab hybrid is the design idea. That specific middle ground has no close free equivalent.
Where this sits among the other serif families
If you are still deciding, our Serif Fonts comparison puts 10 premium faces side by side on the specifications that actually differ between them — desktop price, glyph count, ligature and alternate sets, included file formats and language coverage — with every figure read from the seller’s own listing rather than estimated.
That comparison is worth reading before any single purchase, because the two specifications that most often decide whether a font survives a real project are the two sellers are least consistent about publishing: whether web formats (WOFF, WOFF2) are in the download at all, and whether the character set extends past basic Latin to the accented characters your client’s name might need. Both are listed for every font in the comparison, including the ones where the seller publishes nothing and we say so.
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