Fanwood Text

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Fanwood Text Regular Italic

About Fanwood Text

Fanwood Text is a serif typeface for continuous reading, offered as a roman and a matching italic. The official notes call it a revival of a typeface designed by the Czech-American Rudolph Ruzicka and first published in 1940, drawn slightly darker and with less contrast than the original so that it reads well on an e-book reader screen. In the specimen the lowercase is modest in height with long ascenders, serifs are thin and bracketed, and the numerals are old-style figures that rise and fall like lowercase letters. Capitals are wide and calm, and the Q has a long tail. The family has one weight, Regular 400, in two styles, and is not a variable font. Each font carries 934 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. The copyright notice names Barry Schwartz, and Fanwood Text is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fanwood Text works

Book interiors

A roman with a true italic and old-style figures covers the needs of novels and essays in one small family.

E-books and long articles on screen

The revival was darkened and reduced in contrast for e-reader displays, which helps thin strokes hold at text sizes.

Footnotes, dates and references

Old-style numerals blend into lowercase text, so years and page numbers do not stand out as blocks.

Literary titles and epigraphs

Wide capitals and the long-tailed Q give a quiet, bookish heading at larger sizes.

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
• Romanian
• 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 Fanwood Text

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 Fanwood Text 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: "Fanwood Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FanwoodText-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Fanwood Text";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/FanwoodText-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Fanwood Text", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Fanwood Text 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=Fanwood+Text:ital,wght@0,400;1,400&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No bold

There is one weight. Emphasis comes from the italic, not from a heavier cut.

Old-style figures by default

The numerals shown in the specimen vary in height; they are not lining figures for tables.

Large character set

Each of the fonts carries 934 glyphs across Latin and Latin Extended.

FAQs

Collections with Fanwood Text

• Old-style and revival serif fonts for books

  Digital revivals of Renaissance, baroque and later book types, and new designs in the old-style tradition, most with italics, for novels, essays and fine printing.

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