Cantata One

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Cantata One Regular

About Cantata One

Cantata One is a serif typeface in the Didone manner: thick vertical stems, thin hairlines and flat, fine serifs. Its letters are wide, and in the specimen the a, c, f, r and y finish in round ball terminals, while the heavy stems give the single Regular weight a dark presence closer to a semibold. According to the official description, the idea came from pointed-pen lettering on an antique hand-drawn New York City map, and the face is aimed at medium and large text as well as display sizes, where its contrast is meant to suggest luxury. Joana Correia designed it, and the copyright notice names Sorkin Type Co. The font has 412 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended and one style; there is no italic and no second weight. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Cantata One works

Magazine headlines

Thick stems against hairlines give large titles the high-contrast look of fashion and culture mastheads.

Labels for premium goods

The official notes say the face is meant to evoke luxury at display sizes, which fits wine, cosmetics and chocolate labels.

Titles on invitations and programmes

Wide letters with ball terminals carry event names and headings set in one size.

Short introductions

Standfirsts and intro paragraphs at medium sizes stay within the range the design was made for.

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 Cantata One

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

body {
  font-family: "Cantata One", serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Cantata One has Regular 400 only, without italic or bold.

Made for medium sizes and up

The stated range is medium to large text and display; the thin hairlines are the part most at risk when type gets small.

Reserved name

The license notice lists Cantata as a Reserved Font Name, so a modified version needs a different name.

FAQs

Collections with Cantata One

• High-contrast Didone fonts for fashion and editorial headlines

  Modern-face serifs with hairline serifs and vertical stress: the look of fashion mastheads, beauty packaging and magazine covers.

Similar fonts

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