# Eagle Lake font

> A broad-pen calligraphic hand with short capitals and a tall lowercase, modelled on a running book hand.

Eagle Lake is a calligraphic typeface from Astigmatic, based on a running book hand written with a broad pen. Its capitals are short, which makes the lowercase look tall, and the letters stay unjoined. Eagle Lake has one Regular style with 370 glyphs, is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, and suits invitations, titles and short passages.

## Facts

- Classification: [Handwriting](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/handwriting)
- Designed by: Astigmatic
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 1 (Regular 400)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 370
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-16
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Eagle+Lake
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/eagle-lake
- Tagged for: Headlines, Invitations, Elegant

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright (c) 2012, Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic (AOETI) (astigma@astigmatic.com), with Reserved Font Names "Eagle Lake"

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Eagle Lake free for commercial use?

Yes. Eagle Lake is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1: use in personal and commercial work, modification and redistribution are allowed. The fonts cannot be sold on their own, a modified version keeps the same license and may not use a Reserved Font Name without permission.

### Who designed Eagle Lake?

Eagle Lake is credited to Astigmatic. The copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky, doing business as Astigmatic (AOETI).

### How many weights does Eagle Lake have?

Eagle Lake has one weight, Regular 400, and no italic.

### Is Eagle Lake a script or a handwriting font?

Eagle Lake is a calligraphic hand with separate letters, modelled on a running book hand. It is listed here under handwriting because the letters do not join.

### Which languages does Eagle Lake support?

Eagle Lake includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian and Turkish.

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Source: https://trendhub.net/fonts/eagle-lake (trendhub)