Amatic SC

Try Amatic SC

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Amatic SC Regular
• Bold 700Amatic SC Bold

About Amatic SC

Amatic SC is a hand-drawn typeface in which every letter is a capital: typing lowercase gives slightly shorter small capitals, which is what the SC in the name stands for. The letters are tall and very narrow, drawn with a thin, wobbly line that keeps the unevenness of a pen; stems lean a little and stroke ends are rounded. The numerals and punctuation follow the same loose hand. Two weights are available, Regular 400 and Bold 700, without italics. According to the official description, Vernon Adams drew the original Latin, Ben Nathan designed the Hebrew and revised the Latin, and Thomas Jockin redid the spacing and kerning. Its 839 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Vietnamese. Amatic SC was conceived as a web font for titling and brief text, and it is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Amatic SC works

Café menus and chalkboard graphics

Narrow hand-drawn capitals look like lettering written on a board, and many characters fit on a short line.

Social media quotes

A sentence in tall, thin capitals fills a square image without wrapping to many lines.

Handmade and craft branding

The wobbly pen line signals something made by hand on tags, stickers and stall signs.

Titles in Hebrew or Cyrillic

Hebrew and Cyrillic letters are drawn in the same hand, so a title can be repeated across scripts.

Posters with long headlines

The Bold weight thickens the line enough to hold a headline at a distance while keeping the narrow fit.

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
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Hebrew. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Amatic SC

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

body {
  font-family: "Amatic SC", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Amatic SC 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=Amatic+SC:wght@400;700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No lowercase

Lowercase keys produce small capitals. Text cannot be set in upper and lower case.

Very thin in Regular

The Regular line is hairline-thin in the specimen; Bold is the safer choice on photographs and coloured backgrounds.

No Greek

Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Vietnamese are covered; Greek is not.

FAQs

Collections with Amatic SC

• Fonts for restaurant and café menus

  Serifs, scripts and narrow display faces for menus: a heading face with character and a text face that stays readable in low light.

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