Devonshire

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Devonshire Regular

About Devonshire

Devonshire is a brush-lettered typeface in which the letters do not connect. Its official description links the forms to the scripts of old sign painters and stresses that, free of the joins a connected script requires, the letters can bounce. That is what the specimen shows: thick strokes with rounded ends, narrow capitals with looped entry strokes, a lowercase that shifts a little up and down along the line, and numerals with the same swelling stroke. The font has one Regular style of medium weight and is not a variable font. It contains 374 glyphs covering Latin and Latin Extended. The designer credit is Astigmatic, and the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky doing business under that name. Devonshire is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Devonshire works

Shop windows and chalkboard-style signs

The forms come from sign painters' brush scripts, and the thick strokes stay visible from a distance.

Diner and café menus

Separate letters keep dish names readable while the bouncing line stays informal.

Food and drink labels

A product name in Devonshire gives a label the feel of an old hand-painted sign.

Greeting cards

Short greetings set large show the loops on the capitals.

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 Devonshire

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

body {
  font-family: "Devonshire", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

Letters do not join

Devonshire is a non-connecting script, so letter spacing can be adjusted without breaking links between letters.

One style

There is a single Regular font and no bold or italic.

Reserved Font Name

The copyright notice reserves the name Devonshire; modified versions must use another name.

FAQs

Collections with Devonshire

• Retro script fonts with a mid-century feel

  Connected brush and monoline scripts in the manner of 1930s to 1960s advertising, film titles, painted signs and record sleeves.

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