Berkshire Swash

Try Berkshire Swash

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Berkshire Swash Regular

About Berkshire Swash

Berkshire Swash is a decorative display typeface with a bold, soft-edged stroke. Its capitals carry swashes: in the specimen A opens with a curled entry stroke, H has a looped crossbar, and K, Q and R trail long tails. The lowercase is upright and unjoined, with teardrop terminals on a, c, f and r and marked contrast between thick stems and thin joins. The figures are old-style, dipping below the baseline at 3, 4, 5, 7 and 9. There is one Regular style and no variable axis. The font has 372 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. Astigmatic is credited with the design; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky and sets “Berkshire Swash” as a Reserved Font Name under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The official source files it under handwriting, but the letters are not connected.

Where Berkshire Swash works

Food and drink labels

Heavy strokes and curled capitals hold a product name on a jar, bottle or bakery box.

Café menus and chalkboard-style signs

A section title in Berkshire Swash sets off a list of items set in a plain text face.

Wordmarks

A swash capital followed by unjoined lowercase gives a short name a distinctive first letter while staying readable.

Card and invitation headings

The teardrop terminals and old-style figures give a date or greeting a decorative, hand-drawn warmth.

Book and album titles

One bold weight with strong thick-thin contrast carries a title at cover size.

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
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• 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

Fonts that pair with Berkshire Swash

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

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

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

Things to know

One style

Berkshire Swash has a single Regular style. There is no lighter weight, bold or italic.

Every capital has a swash

A line set entirely in capitals looks busy, as the capital row in the specimen shows. The capitals are drawn to start a word.

Not a joined script

The lowercase letters do not connect, so the face behaves like a decorative serif more than like handwriting.

Romanian is incomplete

Latin and Latin Extended are covered, except that not all letters for Romanian are present.

FAQs

Collections with Berkshire Swash

• Fonts for packaging and product labels

  Brush scripts, soft serifs and sturdy display faces for jars, boxes, bottles and tags, where a name has to work on a small curved surface.

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