Amethysta

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Amethysta Regular

About Amethysta

Amethysta is a serif typeface whose details were kept simple so that they survive rough printing. The official notes explain that Konstantin Vinogradov designed it for low-quality paper, which is the reason for its plain wedge serifs and terminals, and place its proportions close to the transitional serif group. In the specimen the serifs are short triangular wedges without fine brackets, contrast between thick and thin is moderate, the lowercase is fairly tall and open, and the y ends in a straight, blunt tail. The same notes recommend small to medium sizes and observe that some details become noticeable when the type is enlarged. There is one Regular style, no italic and no variable axis. The 222 glyphs lie in the basic Latin subset. Cyreal publishes the font; its name table lists Konstantin Vinogradov and Alexei Vanyashin as designers. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Amethysta works

Print on uncoated or cheap stock

Wedge serifs without fine hairlines were drawn so that ink spread on poor paper does not erase them.

Short texts at small sizes

The official notes recommend small to medium sizes, where the simplified terminals read as an even texture.

Captions and introductions

A sturdy Regular sets a standfirst or picture caption beside a headline in another family.

Headings that show the wedges

Enlarged, the triangular serifs and blunt y tail become visible features of a title.

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

Rarely used letters that are not in the font: French Ÿ.

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Amethysta

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 Amethysta 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: "Amethysta";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/Amethysta-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

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

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Amethysta 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=Amethysta&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

One style, no italic

Amethysta has only a Regular cut, so emphasis in running text has no true italic or bold to draw on.

Basic Latin subset

Western European languages are covered, French apart from the rare capital Ÿ; Latin Extended letters are not included.

Designer credits differ by source

The official notes name Konstantin Vinogradov; the name table adds Alexei Vanyashin; the catalogue credit is the Cyreal foundry.

FAQs

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