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Annie Use Your Telescope

A thin, upright pen handwriting by Kimberly Geswein, taken from the writing of a photography student.

Handwriting 1 style by Kimberly Geswein OFL

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Annie Use Your Telescope is a handwriting typeface by Kimberly Geswein, based on the writing of a photography student she knew. Its thin, even pen strokes form tall, narrow, unjoined letters. Annie Use Your Telescope has one Regular style with 355 glyphs, is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits notes, captions and informal cards.

Annie Use Your Telescope font preview card
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Designer
Kimberly Geswein
Classification
Handwriting
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Styles
1 1 weight
Variable font
No
Glyphs
355
Languages checked
21 see the list
Last updated
version 1.003 2001
Used for
InvitationsCasualSocial media

Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.

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Sample text

Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Annie Use Your Telescope; the download contains the complete files.

Annie Use Your Telescope font specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights
Annie Use Your Telescope specimen: alphabet, numerals and weights. Image drawn by trendhub from the font files.

Weights and styles

  • Regular 400Annie Use Your Telescope Regular

About Annie Use Your Telescope

Annie Use Your Telescope is a handwriting typeface drawn from a real person's hand. Kimberly Geswein writes in the official notes that she asked a photography student for a sample of her writing and turned it into this font; the student chose the name as a nod to the band Jack's Mannequin. The specimen shows a fine, single-thickness line like that of a ballpoint or fineliner. Letters stand upright and are not joined, capitals are tall and narrow, and small irregularities remain: the z and 7 are crossed, the 4 is open at the top and stems vary slightly in length and angle. The family consists of one Regular file with 355 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Annie Use Your Telescope works

Handwritten notes in a layout
The fineliner-thin line reads as a margin note or annotation beside photographs and diagrams.
Scrapbook and photo captions
Narrow letters fit a caption under a picture, in keeping with the font's origin in a photography student's hand.
Informal cards and tags
Unjoined upright letters stay easy to read on gift tags, thank-you cards and place cards.
Personal blog headers
A short title in this hand gives a journal or recipe page a diary-like tone.

Glyphs

!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢

Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 355 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
  • Croatian
  • 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

SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright (c) 2010, Kimberly Geswein (kimberlygeswein.com)

What the license allows

  • 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.

This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.

Fonts that pair with Annie Use Your Telescope

Prompt Sans Serif

Annie Use Your Telescope is a handwriting face for headings; Prompt is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Andada Pro Serif

Annie Use Your Telescope is a handwriting face for headings; Andada Pro is a serif family with 5 weights that can set the body text beside it.

Advent Pro Sans Serif

Annie Use Your Telescope is a handwriting face for headings; Advent Pro is a sans serif family with 9 weights that can set the body text beside it.

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 Annie Use Your Telescope 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.

CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
  font-family: "Annie Use Your Telescope";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/AnnieUseYourTelescope-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Annie Use Your Telescope", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Annie Use Your Telescope with this markup:

HTML, Google Fonts

Things to know

One thin style
There is a single Regular 400 file and no bold. On dark or busy backgrounds the fine line needs a large size to stay visible.
Printed, not cursive
The letters do not connect. Anyone looking for joined-up writing needs a script face.
Latin Extended is included
The glyph set reaches beyond basic Latin, with the letters needed for Turkish, Polish, Czech and Hungarian among others.

FAQs

Is Annie Use Your Telescope free for commercial use?

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

Who designed Annie Use Your Telescope?

Annie Use Your Telescope was made by Kimberly Geswein from a handwriting sample given to her by a photography student.

Where does the name Annie Use Your Telescope come from?

According to the designer's notes, the student whose handwriting became Annie Use Your Telescope named it as a nod to a favourite band, Jack's Mannequin.

How many weights does Annie Use Your Telescope have?

Annie Use Your Telescope has one weight, Regular 400, without italic or bold.

Which languages does Annie Use Your Telescope support?

Annie Use Your Telescope includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Croatian.

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