Almendra

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Almendra Regular Italic
• Bold 700Almendra Bold Bold Italic

About Almendra

Almendra is a serif typeface built on calligraphy, with a style that the official notes relate to chancery and gothic hands. Strokes look cut with a broad pen: curves break into angles, stems lean slightly, and terminals end in wedge shapes. In the specimen the capital A carries a top bar that overhangs to the left, the numerals are old-style figures that rise and drop around the lowercase, and the Bold is markedly darker and more compact. The notes say the design was meant for long texts, particularly literature for young children, and that its details come forward at very large sizes. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, four styles in total, and is not a variable font. Each font has 368 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. Ana Sanfelippo designed Almendra, published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Almendra works

Children's storybooks

The design was intended for young readers' literature, and its pen-made shapes give running text a fairy-tale tone.

Fantasy and historical titles

Angular curves and wedge terminals from gothic and chancery writing suit book covers, maps and game titles.

Chapter openings

Bold at a large size shows the calligraphic details that are hidden at text sizes.

Menus and labels with a handmade tone

Old-style figures sit among lowercase letters, so prices and dates blend into a line.

Text with emphasis

Italics for both weights allow stressed words and titles inside a paragraph.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Hungarian
• Slovenian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Almendra

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Almendra on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Almendra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Almendra-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Almendra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Almendra-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Almendra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Almendra-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Almendra";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Almendra-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Almendra", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Almendra with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Almendra:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Old-style figures

The default numerals have ascending and descending shapes instead of lining up at capital height.

Sister families are separate

The official notes mention Small Cap and Display companions; they are separate families and not part of this download.

Roman structure, gothic details

The gothic influence shows in angles and terminals, but the letters keep roman shapes and read as a serif face, not as a blackletter.

FAQs

Collections with Almendra

• Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

  Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

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