Calistoga

Try Calistoga

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Calistoga Regular

About Calistoga

Calistoga is a display typeface with heavy, slightly condensed serif letters and a cheerful vintage character. Its model was the poster lettering Oscar M. Bryn made for the Santa Fe Railroad in the western United States. In the specimen the serifs are short and bracketed, the bowls are full, the g is double-storey with a prominent ear, and letters sit close together so that a headline takes little width. The font has a single Regular style, drawn dark, and a set of 1,013 glyphs: proportional and tabular figures in old-style and lining forms, fractions, superiors and inferiors, many symbols and case-sensitive forms, along with the Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese character sets. Yvonne Schüttler designed the original; the official notes add that Eben Sorkin widened its language coverage and reworked details in 2018 and again in 2022. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Calistoga works

Travel and event posters

The railroad-poster ancestry and the narrow, dark letters fit a destination name or date into a tight column.

Food and drink packaging

Fractions and four kinds of figures set weights, volumes and prices in the same face as the product name.

Menus and price lists

Tabular figures align prices in columns, while old-style figures sit inside descriptive lines.

Site and blog headings

A single dark weight gives headings contrast against a lighter text family underneath.

Titles in Vietnamese

The Vietnamese character set carries the stacked accents that display fonts often leave out.

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
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. 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 Calistoga

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

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

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

Things to know

One style, registered as weight 400

Calistoga has no italic and no lighter or heavier cut; the Regular itself is drawn dark.

Figure styles are OpenType features

Old-style, lining, tabular and proportional figures are chosen through OpenType settings in the software.

No Cyrillic or Greek

Character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese.

FAQs

Collections with Calistoga

• Bold vintage fonts for poster design

  Wood-type slabs, Tuscans, fat faces and worn display fonts for posters that should look printed a century ago.

Similar fonts

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