Antic

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Antic Regular

About Antic

Antic is a sans serif typeface by Santiago Orozco, published under the Typemade name. The designer's notes describe it as the outcome of studying calligraphic forms: the letters drop the serifs but keep a pen-like stress of eight degrees, which he compares to the angle of his own handwriting. In the specimen that shows as strokes that thin slightly where curves meet stems, a light overall weight, and terminals cut at a slant on letters such as a, c and e. Capitals are narrow and the J and Q descend below the baseline. According to the same notes Antic is the sans member of a planned pair of text families, with a serif counterpart. This release is a single Regular style of 216 glyphs covering basic Latin, and it is not a variable font.

Where Antic works

Short text on light layouts

The thin, even strokes give paragraphs of a few lines an airy texture on portfolio and landing pages.

Captions and pull quotes

The slight calligraphic stress keeps a caption from looking mechanical next to photographs.

Light headings

Set large, the slanted terminals and descending J and Q become visible details.

English and Western European copy

The 216 glyphs hold the accents needed for languages such as French, German and Spanish.

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

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 Antic

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

body {
  font-family: "Antic", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

One weight

Antic is Regular 400 only. There is no bold or italic, so emphasis needs size, colour or a second family.

Basic Latin subset

The character set is the Latin subset without Latin Extended, Cyrillic or Greek.

A light regular

The Regular weight is thin in the specimen; on low-contrast backgrounds it may need a larger size.

FAQs

Collections with Antic

• Minimalist sans-serif fonts

  Quiet, low-contrast sans-serif families with plain shapes and open spacing, for portfolios, product pages and calm editorial layouts.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts