# Amatic SC font

> A hand-drawn, very narrow small-caps face in Regular and Bold, with Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew letters.

Amatic SC is a hand-drawn small-caps typeface begun by Vernon Adams, with Hebrew by Ben Nathan and spacing by Thomas Jockin. Amatic SC has two weights, Regular and Bold, and 839 glyphs covering Latin, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Vietnamese. Amatic SC is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits titles and short runs of text.

## Facts

- Classification: [Handwriting](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/handwriting)
- Designed by: Vernon Adams, Ben Nathan, Thomas Jockin
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 2 (Regular 400, Bold 700)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 839
- Character sets: cyrillic, hebrew, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Amatic+SC
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/amatic-sc
- Tagged for: Headlines, Posters, Casual, Condensed, Social media

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2015 The Amatic SC Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/AmaticSC)

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Amatic SC free for commercial use?

Yes. Amatic SC is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution. The font cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions stay under the same license.

### Who designed Amatic SC?

Amatic SC was first designed by Vernon Adams. Ben Nathan designed the Hebrew and revised the Latin, and Thomas Jockin reworked the spacing and kerning.

### What does SC mean in Amatic SC?

SC stands for small caps. Amatic SC has no lowercase letters; typing lowercase gives smaller capitals.

### How many weights does Amatic SC have?

Amatic SC has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, and no italics.

### Which languages does Amatic SC support?

Amatic SC includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Turkish, Polish and Vietnamese, as well as Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian, and it has a Hebrew alphabet.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/amatic-sc (trendhub)