Meringue Marquee

Meringue Marquee is an original groovy 1970s marquee display font: a bold, broad, upright sans with fully rounded strokes and a row of small round “bulb” holes running along the centre of each letter’s stems and bowls, like a lit theatre sign. Legibility comes first: the bulbs are small (about a quarter of the stroke width or less), spaced well apart and kept well inside the stroke edges, so words read as solid bold letters at 24 px, and every glyph keeps at least 96% of its ink. The bulbs show at headline sizes and fade away at 12–16 px, where the font reads as a plain bold rounded sans. Great for posters, show and party invites, shirts, stickers, signs, labels and retro crafts.

Font-only download: one ZIP with MeringueMarquee-Regular.ttf, a true CFF OpenType .otf, .woff and .woff2, plus README and LICENSE. Six files total. One Regular style with selective kerning.

Character set: uppercase A–Z, lowercase a–z, digits 0–9, space and non-breaking space, and these 20 punctuation marks/symbols: . , ! ? ' " : ; - & @ # $ % ( ) / + = *. Letters and digits have bulbs; punctuation and symbols are solid. No accented letters, smart quotes, alternates or ligatures. Use straight quotes and apostrophes.

No texture or distress. The font has clean solid outlines; the bulb holes are part of the letter shapes. It is a single-colour font, not a colour font: the colours, glow-through bulbs and offset shadow on the listing image are presentation only.

Quality checked: every glyph was checked in all four formats for coverage, clean closed outlines, spacing, metrics and kerning, passed the OpenType Sanitizer and FontBakery (zero fails; the OTF has no warnings and the TTF’s one warning is the expected contour-count note, because each bulb hole is its own contour), was checked for legibility on 24 px and 120 px word renders, and was rendered and reviewed large and at 12–24 px. Desktop installation, craft apps, cutting machines and physical production were not tested.

Licence: commercial use for physical finished products such as cards, shirts, labels, signs and crafts. Do not resell, share or redistribute the font files. WOFF/WOFF2 are for personal/local web previews only; public web hosting or embedding and digital end-product distribution are not licensed. Contact Maker Pixel for broader rights. Digital download only; nothing is shipped. Unzip first and install either TTF or OTF, not both. After purchase, sign in and open My Downloads.