Eagle Lake

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Eagle Lake Regular

About Eagle Lake

Eagle Lake is a calligraphic typeface in the manner of a running book hand, a practical script for writing out text. The strokes show the angle of a broad-edged pen: thick diagonals, thin joins and wedge-shaped terminals. Letters lean only slightly and do not connect, while e and k finish with a hairline flick to the right. The capitals are short in relation to the ascenders, so the lowercase appears large and a line keeps an even band of texture. Numerals are old-style figures that rise and dip like lowercase letters. The family has a single Regular style and is not a variable font. Its 370 glyphs cover Latin and Latin Extended, including the letters for Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, doing business as Astigmatic, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Eagle Lake works

Invitations and certificates

Broad-pen strokes give names and headings a hand-lettered character without the loops of a formal script.

Chapter openings and book titles

Short capitals and a tall lowercase let a title in mixed case hold together as one even line.

Menus and labels with a historical tone

Wedge terminals and old-style figures suit dates, prices and dish names set in a manuscript manner.

Quotations of a few lines

Because the letters are unjoined and the lowercase is large, a short passage remains readable where a connected script would not.

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 Eagle Lake

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

body {
  font-family: "Eagle Lake", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Eagle Lake has a single Regular file, with no bold or italic.

Old-style figures

The numerals have ascending and descending forms, so they do not align in height the way lining figures do.

Unjoined letters

Despite its pen-written look, Eagle Lake is not a connected script: each letter stands apart.

FAQs

Collections with Eagle Lake

• Calligraphy fonts written with a broad pen

  Broad-nib and flat-pen calligraphic faces: chancery, foundational and uncial hands for certificates, quotations and formal headings.

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