Dynalight

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Dynalight Regular

About Dynalight

Dynalight is a script typeface whose lowercase letters join into one steeply slanted line. Astigmatic drew it after an old luggage tag from the Southern Pacific railway, made for its Daylight steam locomotive, number 4449, and the publisher describes the result as a high-speed script. In the specimen the capitals begin with long entry strokes that curl into a loop at the left, the D carries a horizontal bar through its stem, and thick downstrokes alternate with fine connecting hairlines. The lowercase is compact, with long ascenders and descenders. The family has one Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 372 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Turkish, Polish and Czech. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, doing business as Astigmatic, and reserves the name Dynalight under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Dynalight works

Vintage-style logos

A single word with a looped capital resembles the script wordmarks on mid-century travel and motoring ephemera.

Labels and tags

The design began with a luggage tag, and it sits naturally on hang tags, bottle labels and stamps.

Invitations and place cards

Looping capitals lead names set in the joined lowercase at large sizes.

Diner, garage and barbershop signs

The forward slant and curled entry strokes give a shop name a sense of motion.

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 Dynalight

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

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

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

Things to know

Capitals lead into lowercase

In the specimen a row of capitals alone looks crowded: their long entry strokes are drawn to start a word, not to form all-caps lines.

One style

Dynalight has a single Regular style at weight 400, with no bold.

Reserved Font Name

The name Dynalight is reserved by the license notice; modified versions need another name unless permission is given.

FAQs

Collections with Dynalight

• 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.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All script fonts