Antic Didone

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Antic Didone Regular

About Antic Didone

Antic Didone is a serif typeface that Santiago Orozco drew for the headlines of periodicals. It belongs to the Antic Type System, a group of three related families that are meant to be mixed on one page. The specimen shows thin strokes throughout: stems are only a little heavier than the hairlines that join them, the serifs are fine horizontal lines, and the letters are narrow, so many characters fit on a line. The lowercase is tall against the capitals, a trait the official notes ascribe to every family in the system, along with a slight stress that comes from handwriting. Antic Didone has one Regular style, 218 glyphs and a basic Latin character set. It is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 with the Reserved Font Name Antic Didone.

Where Antic Didone works

Magazine and newspaper headlines

Narrow letters let a long headline fit a column width, which is the job the design was made for.

Pull quotes and standfirsts

At large sizes the hairline serifs and the thin joins stay crisp and set a quote apart from the text around it.

Fashion and culture titles

Light strokes with a thick-thin rhythm give section openers and cover lines a refined, quiet tone.

Layouts built on the Antic system

Shared proportions with the other Antic families let a designer switch between serif styles while the line rhythm stays the same.

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 Didone

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

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

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

Things to know

Single Regular style

There is no bold and no italic. Hierarchy has to come from size, colour or a second family.

Hairlines need size

The thin strokes seen in the specimen become very fine in small text, so the face is aimed at headline sizes.

Basic Latin only

The 218 glyphs include the letters needed for English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch and the Nordic languages. The font has no extended Latin, Cyrillic or Greek sets.

FAQs

Collections with Antic Didone

• Fonts for newspapers and magazines

  Headline serifs, compact text faces and news gothics for editorial layouts in print and on news sites.

Similar fonts

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