Edu TAS Beginner

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Edu TAS Beginner Regular
• Medium 500Edu TAS Beginner Medium
• SemiBold 600Edu TAS Beginner SemiBold
• Bold 700Edu TAS Beginner Bold

Edu TAS Beginner is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Edu TAS Beginner

Edu TAS Beginner is a handwriting typeface that models the Tasmania Beginners Alphabet, the first of the handwriting styles taught in that Australian state. Pupils there learn it in years 1 and 2 before moving to a pre-cursive style in year 3. It belongs to the Foundation Fonts for Australian Schools, a collection made to meet Australian education standards. The specimen shows an unjoined, forward-sloping print: one stroke thickness with round ends, a single-storey a and g, oval bowls, and small exit flicks on letters such as a, d, l and t. The family is a variable font with a weight axis from 400 to 700 and four named weights. It has only 127 glyphs, the basic English alphabet, figures and punctuation. Tina and Corey Anderson are credited, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Edu TAS Beginner works

Handwriting worksheets

The letters follow the alphabet that Tasmanian schools teach in years 1 and 2, so tracing sheets match classroom instruction.

Early readers and flashcards

Single-storey a and g are the same shapes children are asked to write.

Classroom labels and displays

The Bold end of the 400 to 700 axis keeps a word readable from across a room.

Notes to parents and school newsletters

A heading in the school's own handwriting style marks material for the youngest classes.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English

Character sets found in the files: latin. 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 Edu TAS Beginner

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 Edu TAS Beginner 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: "Edu TAS Beginner";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/EduTASBeginner-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Edu TAS Beginner", cursive;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Edu TAS Beginner 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=Edu+TAS+Beginner:wght@400..700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

English alphabet only

The 127 glyphs contain no accented letters, so French, German, Spanish and other languages that need them are not covered.

Unjoined by design

This is the beginner stage, in which letters do not connect. The later transitional and cursive stages are not part of this font.

Fuller versions exist elsewhere

The official description notes that complete OpenType versions can be downloaded or built from the project's repository.

Weights from 400 to 700

Regular, Medium, SemiBold and Bold sit on one variable axis; there is no light weight.

FAQs

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