Fondamento

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Fondamento Regular Italic

About Fondamento

Fondamento is a calligraphic typeface that follows the Foundational Hand, a basic formal style devised by Edward Johnston in the early twentieth century for teaching penmanship. The specimen shows the marks of a broad-nib pen held at a constant angle: round letters with diagonal stress, wedge-shaped entry strokes on stems, and endings that flick to the right. Letters stand upright and separate, which keeps words clear, and the capitals are wide with a few small flourishes on A, Q and R. The numerals vary in height like old-style figures. The family has one weight in two styles, Regular and Italic, and 372 glyphs for Latin and Latin Extended. It was made by Astigmatic; the copyright notice names Brian J. Bonislawsky DBA Astigmatic and reserves the names Fondamento and Fondamento Italic. The license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fondamento works

Certificates and diplomas

A formal pen hand suits the name and award lines of a certificate, with the Italic for secondary text.

Invitations and menus

Upright, separate letters keep a calligraphic invitation easy to read at a glance.

Historical and fantasy titles

Broad-nib thick and thin strokes evoke manuscript writing on book covers, game titles and maps.

Quotations and blessings

A few lines of verse set in Regular look hand-lettered without the tangles of a joined script.

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 Fondamento

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

body {
  font-family: "Fondamento", cursive;
}

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

Things to know

One weight, with an italic

Regular 400 and its Italic are the only styles. There is no bold.

Unjoined letters

This is a formal hand written letter by letter. It does not connect like a cursive script.

Figures are old-style

In the specimen the numerals rise and descend like lowercase letters, which suits text lines more than tables.

FAQs

Collections with Fondamento

• 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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