Antic Slab

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Antic Slab Regular

About Antic Slab

Antic Slab is a slab serif with thin, even strokes and short, flat serifs of about the same thickness as the stems. The lowercase is large in relation to the capitals, a trait the official description attributes to every family in the Antic Type System, and the letters are slightly narrow and openly spaced in the specimen. The same source mentions a slight stress taken from handwriting. Antic Slab was drawn for headlines in newspapers and magazines and is the slab member of a system that also has sans and Didone versions. It has a single style, Regular 400, with no bold, italic or variable axis. The font is small: 217 glyphs in the Latin subset, complete for English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Santiago Orozco is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Antic Slab works

Newspaper and magazine headlines

This is the purpose Antic Slab was designed for; its narrow letters fit a long headline into a column.

Light subheads and standfirsts

Thin strokes with discreet slabs give a quieter second level under a heavy title.

Blog titles on screen

The large lowercase keeps a light slab face readable when a title is set at moderate sizes.

Quotes and callouts

A single Regular style with flat serifs sets a short quotation apart from sans serif body text.

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 Slab

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

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

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

Things to know

Regular only

Antic Slab has one weight and no italic.

Latin subset only

The 217 glyphs do not include complete letters for Turkish, Polish, Czech or Estonian.

Part of a larger system

Sans and Didone families belong to the same Antic Type System; they are separate downloads.

Reserved font name

The copyright notice reserves the name Antic Slab for the original; modified versions need another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with Antic Slab

• 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 slab serif fonts