Esteban

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Esteban Regular

About Esteban

Esteban is a serif typeface drawn for running text, with literature and poetry named as its intended use. In the specimen the lowercase is tall, the serifs are short and sturdy, and the stems are not perfectly straight: they gain and lose a little weight along their length. The official description ties that modulation to the manuscripts of the writer Jorge Alfredo Díaz Esteban, whose pen made strokes that thickened with pressure, and says the amount of contrast was settled by testing how dense paragraphs looked, with modest print quality and web use in mind. Letter widths are moderately compact. Esteban ships as one Regular file with 259 glyphs covering Western European Latin; it has no italic or bold and is not a variable font. Angélica Díaz is the designer, and the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Esteban works

Poetry and literary pages

Esteban was drawn with literature and poetry in mind, and the modulated stems keep short lines from looking mechanical.

Quotations and epigraphs

A tall x-height and robust serifs hold a quoted passage together at sizes just above body text.

Article and chapter headings

At heading sizes the swelling of the stems, taken from pen-written manuscripts, becomes visible.

Print on ordinary paper

The contrast level was chosen to survive medium and low quality printing, so thin strokes are not fragile.

Spanish and Portuguese text

The 259 glyphs include the accented letters of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian and Catalan.

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
• Estonian

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 Esteban

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

body {
  font-family: "Esteban", serif;
}

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

Things to know

No italic or bold

Esteban is a single Regular file, so titles of works and emphasis cannot be set in a matching italic.

Latin Extended is incomplete

Turkish ğ and ş, Polish ą and ę and Czech č are not in the font.

Name spelling in the file

The name table inside the font gives the designer as Angelica Diaz Rivera; Google Fonts lists Angélica Díaz.

FAQs

Similar fonts

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