Fredericka the Great

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Fredericka the Great Regular

About Fredericka the Great

Fredericka the Great is a display face that looks drawn by hand with a pencil or chalk. Underneath is a traditional serif with strong contrast between thick stems and thin hairlines and with ball terminals on letters such as a, c and r. In the specimen each thick stroke is traced as a wobbly outline and filled with diagonal hatching, while the hairlines stay as single sketched lines. The designer's note links the design to hand-drawn presentation boards, architectural sketches and student posters from her college years. The family is one Regular 400 file, without bold or italic, and is not a variable font. Its 229 glyphs cover basic Latin, with the letters for English, French, German, Spanish and the Nordic languages. The catalogue credits Tart Workshop and the name table Crystal Kluge; the license is the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Fredericka the Great works

Chalkboard menus and café signs

Outlined, hatched letters imitate lettering drawn on a board without any hand work.

School and campus posters

The design recalls student posters and presentation boards, and it gives event titles that hand-made look.

Craft and handmade product labels

A sketched serif suggests something drawn by a person, which suits small-batch packaging.

Informal invitations

A name or headline set large shows the hatching clearly on cards for parties and showers.

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 Fredericka the Great

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

body {
  font-family: "Fredericka the Great", sans-serif;
}

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

Things to know

One style

Fredericka the Great has a single Regular file, with no bold and no italic.

Fine detail needs size

The hatching is made of thin lines that are distinct only at large sizes in the specimen. The TTF is about 485 KB.

Basic Latin only

The font is listed under the Latin subset; its Latin Extended coverage was too thin to count.

FAQs

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